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...Hollinghurst's evocative tale of a young hedonist in Thatcherite London, Man Booker panel chairman Chris Smith said, "The fact it can be considered as a perfectly valid part of contemporary fiction without regarding [gay relationships] as unique shows how much times have changed." SENTENCED. STAFF SGT. IVAN L. FREDERICK II, 38, highest ranking U.S. Army reservist accused in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal; to eight years in prison; at a court martial in Baghdad. The sentence also includes a reduction in rank, to private; a forfeiture of pay; and a dishonorable discharge. Frederick, who pleaded guilty to five...
...telecommunications technologies from conception in the lab to the point where they had become $1 billion industries. In almost every case, the development took about 20 years. And that trend does not apply only to computers. Disk brakes, which we take for granted, were introduced by British inventor Frederick William Lanchester in 1901. They didn't appear in North American cars until Chrysler introduced them in the early 1950s, and they became standard only in the 1980s. Likewise, the Golden Age of television arrived some 20 years after TV was invented, around...
...says. "They get tired of things very quickly." That means he is always on the lookout for the next hot designers to make sure they get their start in Maru Kyu--because when Japan's teen fashionistas "jump on something new," he says, "it can be explosive." --By Jim Frederick. With reporting by Michiko Toyama/Tokyo
...COLD DAY in 1934 that James Houck hit bottom. Newly wedded and living in Frederick, Md., he was getting drunk every weekend--and sometimes even during the week--on home brew. He had recently been in a drunken-driving accident in his employer's car, and his drinking had estranged him from his wife Betty. "We were not married a month," Houck says, "before I told her I was sorry I ever saw her." Houck had begun drinking early, at age 5, when he would sneak sips from his mother's bottle of dandelion wine, then make up the difference...
Holly Dunlap, founder of Hollywould shoes, has just joined Frederick's, another new club in Manhattan, where the members-only lounge is accessible by fingerprint scanning. "I think this is going to be the new cool place," says Dunlap, who, according to the club, will be joined by Harvey Weinstein and Dylan Lauren. "It's also good for my business that I can bring people to a place that isn't going to be a mob scene...