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...dresser at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, spending his days, as he tells it, "making sure the right costume got on the right person at the right time." He evidently succeeded, since Covent Garden history contains no instances of Madame Butterfly appearing onstage as the Barber of Seville on Paul's watch. Tiring of his operatic existence and still itching for a career in pictures (still ones), he joined a photo agency that supplied images to various clients, among them Time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Our Readers | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...last night at Girishbhai's camp. Most of the people?mainly slum dwellers?seem in good spirits. Women gossip and giggle as they help the volunteers cook up a fresh batch of khichdi, a nutritious mixture of rice and lentils. The men are kept in splits by a barber's risqu? jokes. "Our homes were not worth much, so it will be easy to rebuild them," says 60-year-old Haji Aftab. "We feel sorry for the rich and the middle-class folks, who lost expensive houses." The resident chatterbox Malati, a maid in her early twenties, says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shock After Shock | 3/4/2001 | See Source »

...Paige has come a long way from where he grew up: the hamlet of Monticello, in the piney woods of south-central Mississippi. His dad was a school principal and a barber, his mother a librarian. Paige was the oldest of five children, all of whom have graduate degrees. "My parents told us the solution to the world's problems was education," says Paige...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teacher In Chief | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

...Paige has come a long way from where he grew up: the hamlet of Monticello, in the piney woods of south-central Mississippi. His dad was a school principal and a barber, his mother a librarian. Paige was the oldest of five children, all of whom have graduate degrees. "My parents told us the solution to the world's problems was education," says Paige...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teacher In Chief | 2/4/2001 | See Source »

...general and Latin America in particular, I decided a T-shirt advertising my status as a VIP isn't a good fashion choice. Plus the T-shirt is way too small and feels like it was woven out of hair clippings swept up from the floor of my barber shop in New York. I always wondered what they did with that hair. Now I know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock in Rio, Part 3 | 1/18/2001 | See Source »

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