Perhaps because of its proximity to Canberra, the Sydney Writers' Festival has always done politics well, attracting well known politicians and political journalists, and I saw two events that day on writing and politics that intersected in interesting ways: Carr on his Diary, and How Do Novelists Engage with Politics?
He pointed out that issues such as the role of religion in public life seemed bloodlessly abstract only until they intersected with people's everyday lives: their daughter wanted an abortion, a cousin revealed herself to be gay, or their local school changed its curriculum.
At every point where the wires intersected, electrons could "tunnel" through the insulating middle layer, generating in the process a tiny electrical current.
But on the two occasions on which they have been doled out, only rarely has the debate over their distribution intersected with anything happening in the world outside Brussels.
But it was in Mexico that politics and the games intersected most lethally.In this section A screaming start The ghosts of Mexico 1968 Reprints Related items A tale of two Mexicos: North and southApr 24th 2008 Mexico: Echoes of a shootingOct 1st 1998It was the first and only time that the games were held in Latin America.
His book, though, as he admits, is not really about the map itself, but about "the people whose stories intersected with it".
The Chechen capital is now intersected by wide, grassy boulevards (especially the main thoroughfare, now called Prospect Putin) and fountains spray arcs of water lit by colored lamps, making it a surreally pleasant place to take a stroll.
It looks over a green belt of profuse tropical vegetation intersected by a solitary railway line.
A decade ago there was much worry about Asian Muslims living "parallel lives" that rarely intersected with whites.
The loop is intersected by four cavernous experimental halls where beams of protons, circulating at a smidgen below the speed of light in a vacuum comparable to that of outer space, collide at temperatures just above absolute zero.
In 1879 two new railways intersected on the prairie, and around this random "X" the town of Hastings was born.
