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...partner of nearly 40 years was William Tynan, who was a stage and TV actor before he became a TIME arts reporter of exceptional knowledge, ingenuity and patience. He retired in 2000 but has continued his active interest in the theater, as a Tony voter and a perfect complement to George. The two met when they played in The Boys in the Band in Florida in the late '60s. Both were strong personalities who challenged and supported each other. Their time together marked what to me was, in all but name, one of the great marriages...
...Phillips' books, in a style of even, sorrowful precision that enrages as it informs. Its anger is the stronger for being deployed with such classic restraint. And the stories he chooses to share speak for thousands of other lives that are, and always will be, untold. A powerful complement to such novels as A Distant Shore (which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize three years ago), Foreigners is really one piece of a mosaic that Phillips has been carefully and patiently putting together all his life. Britain cannot know itself, he suggests, until it acknowledges all of its parts...
...When golfers imagine the sand hills of North Carolina, the fabled U.S. Open venue Pinehurst usually springs into their minds first. Yet, architect Donald Ross created another golfing gem in the 6515-yard Mid Pines Golf Club, whose relatively shorter length still demands players to hit a full complement of shots to get through eighteen holes at par.A tweaked back forced Shore to withdraw from the tournament before its start, but junior John Christensen, who originally intended to play as an individual, rounded out the usual five-man tournament roster in Shore’s place.It remains unclear whether Shore...
...American businessman in Mumbai attends a fancy banquet to raise money for abused women and picks up a local woman there, to complement the underage schoolgirls he's keeping on the side. Another American man makes an elaborate, prideful point of not taking advantage of his Indian masseuse, only to find that he's being taken advantage of on every side. A backpacker pays for her room in a Bangalore ashram by teaching call-center workers to sound like Westerners - only to find that she has turned shy and well-mannered Indians into grasping and much too intimate mock-Americans...
...years past. In an e-mail to the UC open list a few months ago, Vice President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 briefly raised the issue of student influence on both the Administrative Board and the Board of Overseers—the group of alumni that complement the Corporation at the pinnacle of University governance...