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...Wall fell in 1989. "If you ask me, they could put the Wall back up tomorrow," says Eveline Kulczak, 35. She has lost her prestigious job organizing fashion shows in eastern Germany, been deprived of her free child care, and been left with a pile of debts by her husband. "As a family, we were better off before the Wall fell," she says. "If I could afford to, I would leave Germany altogether." A growing number of Germans are doing just that. Hardy Firl, 71, who spent three years in jail for his part in the 1953 uprising, also feels...
...vilification from the left. The fearful Orwell borrowed a revolver from Hemingway. He and Eileen took a house on a remote Scottish island, raised goats and chickens, and adopted an infant boy they named Richard, after Orwell's father. Despite continuing infidelities, Orwell remained a devoted dad and husband. He was not, however, a healthy one, afflicted regularly with bronchitis and pneumonia. Eileen had her problems as well. In 1945, while Orwell was away in France, she had surgery to remove uterine tumors and died on the operating table. Orwell was devastated. He set out to raise Richard alone...
...safe--and even perhaps encouraged--to judge the book by its bubble-gum-pink cover. The funny, crude and knowing novel follows the antics of Clarissa Alpert, who is untroubled that she possesses no talents, job or interests but a little concerned that she has yet to acquire a husband. "Her timeline was clear: she would be 29 (32) in November; she and her lucky husband would have two children within four years; she'd be divorced by 40 and still hot (thanks to Dr. Drew Franklin of the Beverly Hills Triangle) and living the good life while the nannied...
...scientist better known for her tumultuous two marriages to dissident author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; in Moscow. In a 1974 memoir of their life together, she questioned some of the descriptions of Stalin's prison camps in Solzhenitsyn's book The Gulag Archipelago, calling them "camp folklore." She split from her husband in 1970 but as recently as last year said, "I love him right up to this moment...
...homesick expats, a place of endless sundowners and fluttering Union Jacks?as well as these characteristics, the archetypal Empire clubs, until the late-20th century, shared another: unwritten color bars. May Holdsworth, in her history of Hong Kong expatriate life, Foreign Devils, cites Anne Baker, a Eurasian whose white husband had to resign from the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club in the 1950s upon marrying her. Also quoted is Michael Wright, a former government architect, who remembers that at the Hong Kong Club "there was nothing in the rules to say that Chinese couldn't join. It had simply been...