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...school in Germany and I'm responsible for a trainee teacher [Oct. 26]. In her first lesson she explained the differences between Ms., Miss and Mrs., a rather dull way to start, I thought. I realized later that this impression was probably due to my own experiences: I never had any problem with being addressed as Miss before my marriage or Mrs. now. I don't identify myself through my marriage but I believe that it is a sign of love to have the same name as the man with whom I intend to spend the rest of my life...
...winning novelist who lived in Berlin from 1999 to 2003 and goes back every summer. "It's a much wilder place than New York City. There are all kinds of trapdoors you can fall through. It's a bit dangerous, but estimable. The dinner conversation is always serious and never about real estate...
...long life (of which nearly six decades were in circumstances of great renown), and besides being a writer was a doctor and a spy, all with generous measures of success. His private life, however, was often tortured: the death of his mother when he was 8 (something he never got 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...
...smile that couldn't be hidden by all the blood in his mouthpiece. Everyone who saw it knew that he knew at that moment that he was going to win the fight. Not that his partisans had any doubt. The MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas roared like never before. "Let's go, Manny!" reverberated again and again as the crowd demanded that their champion finish off his opponent and win glory for the Philippines...
...superstars from South Korea, north Africa and Israel, alongside those of Bette Midler and Carrot Top). On fight night, national flags were worn as athletic costumes, though the big money men were still accompanied by towering escorts in body-tight metallic lamé and slave-ankle stilettos. Some traditions never change...