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...make that "traditionally built" - woman named Precious. Their relationship began in 1996 while Smith was on holiday in France. During that trip, he scribbled a few lines of a short story, which grew into a novel, then a series, chronicling the life of Precious Ramotswe, owner of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency in Gaborone, Botswana. Four books into the series, McCall Smith is not stopping yet. "To say goodbye now would be like leaving in the middle of a conversation," the 54-year-old Zimbabwe-born Scot says. "Rather rude." Quite right, say his fans, who this week will...
...perched alertly on Portman’s lap, Charlie hardly seems lonely. He aims his short snout at a passing spaniel and twitches his nose in the easy spring breeze. Like his owner, he appears confident in the shade of Harvard’s halls...
...last week, her green and purple dress billows as the owner of Caribbean-African Creations circulates among the tapestries and trinkets in her JFK Street store. Customers come in off the street and offer condolences on the “going out of business” signs on the door...
...place like this you can chat with the owner,” she says. “You don’t chat with the people...
...minutes later, answering a telephone call, this small business owner gives directions by referring to the solid red windows of the store across the street which had moved in three years...