Word: sisterly
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When he arrived in the U.S., in 1989, with his parents, Oleg and Yelena, and his younger sister, Marsha, he was a 13-year-old fish-out-of-chlorinated-water. He didn't have a good place to swim, didn't have a coach, didn't have a swimming future. How could this have been? His life since he'd been six had centered around a pool. Oleg, who worked as a coffee-shop manager in the U.S.S.R., had enrolled Lenny in a class at the Army Sports Club in Odessa, just something to do until...
...shape for Sydney, TIME assembled its own stellar team, including senior editor Robert Sullivan and chief of reporters Jane Bachman Wulf. Between them, Sullivan and Wulf have attended more than a dozen Olympics for our sister publication SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. (SPORTS ILLUSTRATED/Time Inc. is an official Olympic sponsor.) This week Sullivan profiles Marion Jones, the Games lead story. To watch her compete in Brussels, Sullivan says, was "to see a stadium full of track-crazed fans screaming for their hero, and to get a feeling for what she's trying to accomplish on a worldwide stage." With reporter Sora Song...
...Brown. He works silent hours in a cubicle. He calls his domineering mother every day. Women, not coincidentally, terrify him. One dreary Thanksgiving week, his long-lost father sends him a plane ticket to visit him in Michigan. During the tragicomic, disastrous get-together, Jimmy meets his adopted black sister Amy and his ancient grandfather (also named Jimmy), whose own 1890s Chicago childhood unfolds in a beautiful and heartbreaking novella-within-a-novel in Jimmy Corrigan...
What links this string of fatalities? The answer, it turns out, is Iris Chase Griffen--Laura's elder sister, Richard's wife, Aimee's mother. Now in her 80s, Iris realizes that she is the only person left alive who knows the circumstances behind these deaths. Having been warned by her doctor that her heart is weak, the old woman begins, reluctantly, to write down what she remembers: "After all I've done to avoid it, Iris, her mark, however truncated: initials chalked on the sidewalk, or a pirate's X on the map, revealing the beach where the treasure...
This novel, Iris reveals, was published shortly after her sister's death, and, after an initial furor about its sexual content, gives Laura Chase a posthumous literary fame that endures into the late '90s. "Laura touches people," Iris writes...