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Sunday Times Magazine February 22nd 2009
DID YOU KNOW? Three nuggets of the unexpected, including: the street urchin who inspired Huckleberry Finn; and the female Schindler who saved 2,500 Jews
RELATIVE VALUES – Father-and-son conductors Neeme and Kristjan Jarvi, who left Estonia to find artistic freedom in the US
OPEN MINDS – India’s media coverage of the Mumbai terrorist attacks made a farce of the harsh reality its people endure on a daily basis, says the film director Mahesh Bhatt
ONE YEAR ON – Jean Johnson, the Women’s Institute stalwart on a tireless crusade to legalise prostitution in the UK and improve conditions for the working girl
SHORT STORY – In this beguiling tale from Lionel Shriver, an American living in London has dinner with his penny-pinching father -with entirely unexpected results
A LIFE IN THE DAY – Cathy Shimell talks about the amazing finds in the Red Cross ‘designer” charity shops she runs in Chelsea
LAUGHING ALL THE WAY TO THE YANKS – He loves making us squirm with his caustic satire. Now the tables are turned as Ricky Gervais is put on the spot about his childhood, self-love and Stateside ambition
OUR LITTLE PLACE IN THE HILLS – For decades the mansions of Beverly Hills have harboured showbiz scandals, secrets and tragedies. We gain exclusive access and find out what really went on behind closed doors
LEFT STRANDED – Thousands of British women suffer from trichotillomania, a little- known condition that makes them pull all their hair out. Why do they do it and is there a cure?
CAPITALISTS PUNISHMENT – They were the ruthless tycoons who made a Faustian pact with the Kremlin. Now Russia’s oligarchs are losing their power-and their billions
72 pages. All our magazines are first day issues. This issue is in very good condition for age.
