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...over), a cold upbringing in Kent by an unaffectionate uncle, a crippling stammer, a toxic marriage made against better judgment at the age of 43 and the lengths he went to to preserve a façade of conventionality to hide his homosexuality. All these created an extraordinarily complex man...
...what was then Malaya - with absolute fascination until the early 1920s. His finest short-story collections, The Trembling of a Leaf (1921), The Casuarina Tree (1926) and Ah King (1933), were inspired by these wanderings. They were all undertaken in the company of the colorful Gerald Haxton, the man who was his lover, secretary and companion for 30 years. His other significant homosexual relationship, with Alan Searle, a working-class boy 30 years his junior, began in 1928 and was to continue until Maugham's death...
...explodes." Roach, who has worked with boxing luminaries such as De La Hoya and Mike Tyson, offers a little poetry when he recalls the time in 2001 when Pacquiao first came into his gym. "I just did one round with mitts with him, and I thought, 'Man, can this motherf______ fight.'" (Watch TIME's video "A Free Boxing Lesson with Oscar De La Hoya...
...famous enough to have his own table at the Capitale extravaganza. Beside Pacquiao sits his wife Jinkee. Filipino tabloids have published her purported ultimatums against Manny's "playboy" ways, but tonight she says only a couple of sentences and even those guardedly. She speaks mostly to the other man seated next to her, Mike Koncz, a Canadian who takes care of the little details that matter to Pacquiao and his wife. The fighter, for example, must have white rice with his meals (a hard habit to break for all Filipinos), so Koncz goes scampering for a plate...
...potential. He is caring, thoughtful and generous." Dionisia is quieter about her son's career after boxing. "I will support and pray for him," she says. But she worries. "There's a lot of trouble in politics." Can Manny Pacquiao continue to be the most loved man in the Philippines when he quits the ring and enters the cockpit of politics? That is going to be the fight of his life...