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...revered and reviled newspaperman whose "Night Owl" column extolled for nearly four decades the sybaritic pleasures available to expatriate men in Thailand's capital; in Bangkok. The Brooklyn-born Trink covered the city's go-go bars, massage parlors and pubs, making the rounds with his Thai wife in tow, owl medallion around his neck and maroon polyester pants hitched up to his chest. He wrote in a retro style in which prostitutes were "demimondaines," and press releases were preceded by the phrase, "The tom toms have it ..." His signature sign-off was, "But I don't give a hoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 12/20/2003 | See Source »

...parent visiting with kids in tow, lay down the law. "Long before you get there," says Post, "review with your kids the basics of being in someone else's home: saying hello, shaking hands, looking people in the eye, watching your manners, not running wild and eating what's in front of you." Says Baldrige: "Don't take your children with you unless you have well-behaved children. When you say, 'You have to go to bed now,' that child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Be My Guest | 12/15/2003 | See Source »

...doesn’t shy away from talking about the old-fashioned fun of adventure in addition to the heightened political awareness: as a matter of policy, for example, she always books her flights on the last day of finals so she can leave the exam room backpack in tow. She recounts that last year, after being hired to write for Let’s Go: India & Nepal in the summer, she “subsided on my travel backpack for the whole of May after driving all my other possessions home, just because of the sheer exhilaration of landing...

Author: By Amelia E. Lester, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Globetrotter | 12/11/2003 | See Source »

...Caravan for Democracy tour, backed by the JNF, that seeks to counter what it sees as a rising tide of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic sentiments on campuses. A spokesperson for the organization said that the group would visit campus next semester, although perhaps with a different speaker in tow. The effort to bring the Caravan to Cambridge comes in the wake of an October article by a senior Israeli government official, published in Israeli and American newspapers, that paints an ugly picture of free speech at Harvard...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: You Say You Want a Resolution? | 12/4/2003 | See Source »

...your current service. Now that carriers have followed through on the FCC mandate to let customers take their numbers with them when they switch to another service providers, industry estimates suggest that, before the year is out, 13 million people will jump ship with their 10-digit number in tow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Take Your Numbers With You | 11/25/2003 | See Source »

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