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...people in general, but also a succession of unforgettable characters that illustrate the range of issues confronting modern Africa. One essentially tragicomic figure is the Sikh whom Naipaul meets on the plane to Nairobi; on the one hand, the author is repelled by the bumbling, garrulous man, overeager to befriend a stranger who is similarly of Indian origin. Yet Naipaul writes with uncharacteristic feeling for the Sikh’s profound predicament as a British Asian going to Tanzania to try and extricate his own mother. He writes of the outright racism that the Sikh experiences at Nairobi Airport, where...
...Harvard, but also the opportunity to work on your networking skills. You might just meet the girls who will become your future blockmates and best friends at a random white-out party freshman week. Sororities, female final clubs, and even the Freeze magazine mixers are a nice way to befriend girls with whom you have at least one thing in common—you like to have...
...this year, has more going for it. Jeff Daniels plays the long-ago author of a spiritual best seller, Me and God, who's since become a recluse in the most photogenic part of Philadelphia. He crawls out of his shell to meet a single-mom chiropractor (Lauren Graham), befriend a recovering alcoholic (Lou Taylor Pucci) and make a public display of vulnerability - all staples of the genre, as is the plangent piano score that indie films employ to tell viewers what to feel. (Sometimes watching a sweet movie can rouse the dormant grouch...
...only takes Andrew an afternoon to befriend a like-minded, co-op-dwelling bisexual (played by the multitasking Shelton), who invites him over for an evening of drugs, dancing and experimental thinking, if not actions. Andrew persuades Ben to drop by to meet his new friend. "It's a little weird," Ben tells Anna on the phone, promising he'll be home in time for dinner. "The place is called Dionysus, and they aren't kidding." Wanting to please both friend and wife, he's torn. In the end, the desire to be as hip as he believed himself...
...single designer?Zac Posen, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, Alessandro Dell'Acqua?at insider prices ranging from 50% to 70% off. All sales have a daily start time of noon Eastern and last for a breathless 36 hours. And, of course, only invited guests are privy. (Befriend a member and ask for an invite to join.) "We really prize doing it in a way that is incredibly exciting," says Maybank. But the bottom line, says Wilson, is that "we provide access to hundreds of highly sought-after brands for both men and women. We have a lot of depth...