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TIME: What do you do these days? LAVER: I don't have any set plans. Depends what the day brings. They have an Adidas shoe in my name and that encompasses going to a few places during the year, but nothing too earth-shattering in the tennis world...
...silver vases from the Bactrian Bronze Age; a Greek limestone pillar and sundials from the 2nd century BC; Indian-related ivory figures and furniture from the 1st century AD; and a spectacular gold collection from Tillya-Tepe that includes bracelets, hearts, a crown, and even a pair of golden shoe soles meant to convey an aristocrat's disinclination for walking...
...Simon's progressive politics, The Wire betrays a kind of small-c conservative nostalgia for hard work and honor, for shoe-leather police work, for reporters who pound the pavement, even for criminals who try to follow some kind of code. The Wire offers a bird's-eye critique of society, but it doesn't look down on individuals. Its heroes are flawed, fated people who try even without hope, who teach kids with horrid home lives, who try to kick unshakable addictions, who do the hard labor of investigations even when their bosses punish them...
...lethal dose of stones. Victory! 3. Cinderella – This classic is far from the Disney version that’s sweet enough to give you a toothache. The wicked step-sisters’ attempts at deceiving the prince are discovered when blood leaks through the too-small shoe. As punishment for their cruelties to Cinderella, pigeons pluck out their eyes. Which begs the question: Is justice blind or just blinding? 4. The Girl Without Hands – Devils, angels and a little girl whose hands are lopped off by her father populate this story. Her hands...
...Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in India, carrying with him a suitcase full of baked beans. He left the ashram when he'd eaten the last can. He grew up in poverty. ("I was so poor," jokes Ringo, "that I had to hop to school. We only had one shoe.") He hasn't been back to Merseyside since his stepdad's funeral 11 years ago. Ask Ringo if he's English and he answers, "No. I'm world." If there's a football match, he'll root for England or his real passion, Liverpool FC; otherwise, he says, "I feel more American...