abstract:Ian Mitchell is a Scottish author, who grew up mainly in South Africa. He is the author of Isles of the West: a Hebridean Voyage and Isles of the North: a Voyage to the Realms of the Norse.
State Department Spokesman Ian Kelly said Mitchell,on his fourth trip to the region since assuming the envoy post in January, will stop in Beirut Thursday and Damascus Friday and Saturday after Jerusalem-based meetings with Israeli and Palestinian officials.
VOA: standard.2009.06.09
When Mitchell Stephens (a litigation attorney played, in The Performance of his hugely impressive career, by Ian Holm) appears on the scene, you hope that he's going to be a source of healing, but Stephens is dealing with ghosts of his own that make him pursue a questionable lawsuit against the bus company with something approaching Biblical fury.