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...Burma a decade ago, bewitched by its rich culture, breathtaking landscapes and hospitable people. Despite their isolation and the ever-present fear of arrest, I found Burmese to be worldly and eager to talk; I quickly formed lasting friendships, and Burma became the subject of my second book, The Trouser People. I returned perhaps a dozen times, witnessing changes that were usually for the worse. People grew poorer, stalked by disease and malnutrition. Inflation lurched ever upwards. Schools and hospitals crumbled with neglect. Insurgencies raged along the rugged borders. The brightest Burmese sought lives abroad. The only real constant...
...knew Andrew would not be able to tell the full story until he had safely left Burma but that it would be worth the wait. For few foreigners know Burma as intimately as he, and nobody has written about it with more power. His book The Trouser People (Penguin; 2003) is the definitive account of modern Burmese society. Andrew arrived in Rangoon just in time to catch the uprising at its most optimistic: the monks had been joined by thousands of ordinary Burmese, infused with hope that they would get the junta to bend and perhaps break. Andrew joined...
...ideas than personalities and clearly finds it puzzling that anyone should expect the softer reaches of his character to yield clues to his political landscape. He's analytical but not self-aware, sometimes so absorbed in big, important musings that he fails to straighten his tie or untuck his trouser legs from his socks or recognize his colleagues. At Labour's annual conference last fall, the premier-in-waiting made awkward progress around a reception organized by the party and full of potential donors, thrusting a large hand at unfamiliar guests and deploying a lame icebreaker about the conference venue...
...jeans are out, but skinny pants are in, meaning that you cannot click your heels up with glee and smash your Tae Bo tape with your instep, as you were wont to do if you had only read the first part of this sentence. Cigarette pants are like a trouser version of skinny jeans except they show your cellulite more. Thus you must work out harder with less reward and repeat to yourself the mantra “I love my body and myself” as you throw yourself on your bed trying desperately to zip these babies...
...London, a sleek boutique based in fashionable Islington. Palette offers a "finder service" for shoppers from all over the world; owner Mark Ellis boasts that he can track down just about any vintage garment or accessory. Supply Ellis with your measurements and the details of the '60s Ossie Clark trouser suit or turn-of-the-century silk kimono you're after, and he'll comb his network of 50 vintage dealerships across the globe. Once he's found the garment?which can take from a few weeks to several years, depending on its rarity?Ellis will e-mail...