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...back tales of exotic places and customs. They marveled at the prosperity of city-states in southern India and the violence of the Javanese. In what is present-day Thailand, they were thrilled to discover that the local men were happy to allow their wives to entertain and even sleep with the visitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Asian Voyage: In the Wake of the Admiral | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

Kristin L. Rakowski ’03, a Crimson editor, is an English and American liteartures and languages concentrator in Kirkland House. This summer, she interned for Art Education for the Blind and worked for the Circuit Court of Illinois. Somewhere in between, she rediscovered the foreign concepts of sleep and having time to herself...

Author: By Kristin L. Rakowski, | Title: POSTCARD FROM CHICAGO: Scratching The Surface | 8/17/2001 | See Source »

...ought to trademark. They enter into a room with a table, to which they pull over plastic stools when they want to eat. Their “kitchen,” if it could be called that, has a sink and a burner or two. The six of them sleep on bunks spread between two rooms. They don’t have much in the way of closets or drawers for storage, but that’s okay, since they don’t have much in the way of stuff to store. Their sun porch is a hanging forest...

Author: By Sarah J. Ramer, | Title: POSTCARD FROM CHINA: In The Workers’ Paradise | 8/17/2001 | See Source »

...Chinese checkers. Her specialty was miniature still lifes, usually just a few inches wide. DIED. LEON WILKESON, 49, bassist and founding member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, the 1970s U.S. rock band that sold 35 million albums and is best known for its songs Freebird and Sweet Home Alabama; in his sleep, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. Wilkeson survived the 1977 plane crash that killed three members of the group. He and the remaining members reformed the band in 1987 and were in the midst of a U.S. tour. RETIRED. MICHAEL FLATLEY, 42, the flashy and temperamental Irish-American star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...counting vigorously how many drinks I had had, but at some point I apparently lost count—probably after the $46 shot of tequila. I didn’t feel too well the next day. Uch, a sportswriter, had taken me back to his place to sleep, dropping me off shortly before 11:30 a.m. at my apartment. I soaked in the bathtub for awhile and lay motionless on my bed, feeling so sick I didn’t even think to call the paper and tell them I was okay. When my editor called a short time later?...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, | Title: POSTCARD FROM CHATTANOOGA, TENN.: Living Alone | 8/10/2001 | See Source »

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