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...worldly success, Greene retained the attitudes dictated by his childhood: a dislike for the strong -- hence his increasing postwar opposition to the U.S. -- and a sympathy for the underdog, a category that came to include everyone from Fidel Castro to Kim Philby, a onetime friend and also a British intelligence officer who famously spied for and then defected to the Soviet Union. The last 30 or so years of his life were spent in a modest & apartment in an undistinguished building in Antibes, on the French Mediterranean. Long separated (but never divorced) from his wife, Greene wrote conscientiously some...
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Richard Behar, Lisa Beyer, Janice Castro, Philip Elmer- DeWitt, Nancy R. Gibbs, Richard Lacayo, Michael D. Lemonick, Thomas McCarroll, Richard N. Ostling, Priscilla Painton, Sue Raffety, Janice C. Simpson, Jill Smolowe, Susan Tifft, Anastasia Toufexis, Richard Zoglin...
...Castro's down-to-earth origins helped. Reared on a northern California cattle ranch, Janice studied English literature and city planning at the University of California, Berkeley. She began as a reporter-researcher for TIME in 1973, then became a writer. She eventually joined the Business section and was promoted last year to associate editor. During the past year, Castro has written major stories on the defense industry, the economic devastation of U.S. airlines and the Matsushita buyout...
When not writing about the feverish world of business, Janice slows down to smell the flowers. She pitches for TIME's championship softball team and rides her mountain bike around Central Park in the mornings. Castro's healthy proclivities are also apparent in her office, which is crammed with thriving plants, Ansel Adams photographs recycled from discarded calendars, baseball trophies and rolls of earth-friendly gift-wrapping paper. Amid the creative clutter on her desk: a bottle of spring water and a Slinky toy. "I use it sometimes to concentrate when I'm writing," Castro explains. "It seems to work...
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Richard Behar, Lisa Beyer, Janice Castro, Philip Elmer- DeWitt, Nancy R. Gibbs, Richard Lacayo, Michael D. Lemonick, Thomas < McCarroll, Richard N. Ostling, Priscilla Painton, Sue Raffety, Janice C. Simpson, Jill Smolowe, Susan Tifft, Anastasia Toufexis, Richard Zoglin...