Word: alexey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just jealous. Ever since I overdosed on Tetris in the early '90s, there just haven't been any games that thrilled me for more than an hour or two. Until now. The elegant and addictive Pandora's Box (Microsoft; $35)--which, not coincidentally, was created by Tetris designer Alexey Pajitnov--has kept me up until 2 a.m. and turned 15-minute coffee breaks into 2 1/2-hour obsessions. Consisting of some 10 different puzzle types that morph into 350 unique games, Pandora's Box combines problem-solving fun with the visual richness of fine art and photography. For long sessions...
...published a cover story on the rise of prostitution around the world, particularly in Russia and Eastern Europe. As a following piece, we focused on a particularly terrible aspect of the problem, child prostitution. Our primary exhibit: a set of photographs taken in Moscow by freelance Russian photographer Alexey Ostrovskiy. Distributed first by Agence France-Presse, they purport to show a pimp named Sasha and two 11-year- old boys soliciting tricks near the Bolshoi Theater, an infamous pick-up spot. Some of the pictures, which showed the boys made up as girls, were too explicit to publish. The ones...
...pictures were staged, holding out the prospect that if he did so TIME would have to pay him "very good money. $20,000." They tell Sasha, "There is big money here. You and the kids can get real decent money and live in clover the rest of your lives. . . . Alexey ((the photographer)) made his money and in a way set you up." (In fact, Ostrovskiy had not been paid for the pictures, pending the outcome of our investigation...