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...story of Paul Lozano and Margaret Bean-Bayog is a remarkable one, so it remarkable literary event. Two books have just been published that both purport to tell the story of what happened between this and his distinguished psychiatrist. Both books are written by journalists associated with the Boston Globe--Eileen McNamara, who writes for the Globe's Sunday Magazine, and Gary Chafetz, a freelance investigative reporter who covered the story for the Globe when it first broke (Chafetz, as a co-author) although the preface indicates that his role was mainly one of consultant and adviser...
...surely the funniest -- and the most ambisexual. British director David Jones, a longtime collaborator with Pinter, does not mess with the text, but he does point up homosexual undertones, overtones and just plain tones in the relationships among the two old men and two younger ones who purport to be servants but act like thugs. As usual with Pinter, sexual attraction manifests itself in smidgens of affection and buckets of scorn, and the goal of Eros is the adolescent urge to have something to brag about. The sexual linkages, from passion to cuckoldry, get even more complicated in the second...
...Blood tests that purport to detect immune-system reactions to silicone leaked from breast implants are unreliable, say critics. The tests do detect antibodies, but not necessarily ones related to silicone...
...Until several years ago, the best chance of finding instant felicity was to go to Japan, a society that polls still purport to be among the most satisfied on earth. A principal reason for such fulfillment no doubt lay in one of the country's most alluring tourist attractions: a remote railway depot on the northern island of Hokkaido called Koufuku Eki, or Happiness Station. There, travelers whose feet had strayed from the path to contentment could set themselves aright by reaching into their pockets, plunking down $2.10 and buying, literally, "a ticket to Happiness...
...prostitution around the world, particularly in Russia and Eastern Europe. As a following piece, we focused on a particularly terrible aspect of the problem, child prostitution. Our primary exhibit: a set of photographs taken in Moscow by freelance Russian photographer Alexey Ostrovskiy. Distributed first by Agence France-Presse, they purport to show a pimp named Sasha and two 11-year- old boys soliciting tricks near the Bolshoi Theater, an infamous pick-up spot. Some of the pictures, which showed the boys made up as girls, were too explicit to publish. The ones we did publish were awful enough, haunting...