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The opening scene, with its choice of desk or drug habit, introduces one of the book's most unsettling truths: that despite Carr's recollection that he cleaned up his act to care for his newborn daughters, the more compelling factor was his professional ambition. Much of the memoir's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Collective Memory | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

"We are very patriotic," says Mamadou Moustapha Lo, a Senegalese player from Thies, in agreement. So much so that he refuses to have his picture taken without his national team jersey. "It's sacred," he says without a smile. Lo's best score so far was 62 points, for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa's Lions of the Scrabble Board | 7/22/2008 | See Source »

There is little doubt that Gemmy, embodying the Old World reborn in the New, is a sacred memory. But Malouf, a poet as well as a prizewinning novelist, is never too obvious. No stereotypes jump out of the bush. Crocodile Dundee and an easy way with strangers await the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WILD MAN WITHIN | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

Miro, in Spanish, means ''he saw'' -- an absurdly good name for a painter. Joan Miro died 10 years ago, and 1993 marks the centenary of his birth. It has been celebrated by a number of exhibitions in Spain, where the centerpiece was a large retrospective in Barcelona. This week an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PUREST DREAMER IN PARIS | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

The rough-hewn and at times monastic look of the property's 66 rooms should help them do just that. At Onsen Papawaqa - Papawaqa is apparently the aboriginal name for a local sacred mountain - the walls are in unfinished concrete. But the most remarkable design features are the uneven floors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wooden Spa | 7/9/2008 | See Source »

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