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...existence, and for much of A Life Apart, the links between her story line and that of her maker are tenuous, leaving the reader at a loss as to how these two interrelate. Only in the book's second half, when Ritwik is living in London illegally, working part-time as a male prostitute and looking after the elderly, incontinent Anne Cameron in exchange for free lodging, do their narratives' symbiotic pas de deux finally become clear. Ritwik and Cameron's relationship forms the book's redemptive core, with Cameron's tragic family history intertwining with the story of Gilby...
...TIME's Pictures of the Week...
...TIME's Pictures of the Week...
...produce a domestic line of menswear in 1990, Western designs were in universal demand. Zhou was well versed in foreign style - at his Fujian factory, he had been producing export garments for five years, and the early designs of his own line, Septwolves, were almost identical. At the time, Chinese manufacturers seeking a reputation for quality and modernity still felt obliged to ape Western brands, as they had been doing for decades. "Like many other domestic companies, we started out aspiring for such influence," Zhou recalls...
...does Time do this? This is ostensibly an international magazine yet, when asked to provide a Winter Olympics preview, you focus almost exclusively on participants from the U.S. Of the few you chose, eight were American. While this is hardly representative of those athletes expected to win gold in Vancouver, it is indeed representative of how preoccupied Americans are with themselves. Matthew Shepherd Brisbane, Australia...