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...guide for this trip (and I do mean trip) through history and literature is the eminent 19th-century translator of Russian literature Constance Garnett, whose unrelenting Englishness (read: priggishness) has been a scourge to modern translators from Nabokov on. Fashioned by Durang as a kind of Charles Kinbote for the entire Western cannon, Garnett is as much a mangler of Russian literature as a scholar of it. (The Russian word for frustrated homosexual is Peter Tchaikovsky, she says). Played with unrelenting and downright hysterical formality by Thomas Derrah, Garnett becomes as loveable as she is overbearing. Listening to her roll...
...Lakers suffered through one of the worst shooting nights in franchise history and Kevin Garnett scored 21 points to lead Minnesota to an 86-75 victory last night...
After shooting just 30 percent through the first three games, Garnett was 9-for-19 to lead the Wolves. Sam Mitchell had 20 points and six rebounds off the bench, and Joe Smith added 17 points...
...Number of players currently slated to make more than $14 million (in descending order of salary: Michael Jordan, Patrick Ewing, Shaquille O'Neal, David Robinson and Kevin Garnett...
...spirit of entrepreneurship has inspired some specialized objects of philanthropic attention. Katrina Garnett, CEO of Crossworlds Software in Burlingame, Calif., and one of the high-tech world's few female chief executives, launched a foundation last year devoted to encouraging high school girls to pursue computer science. Kirsch, meanwhile, plans to pump $100,000 a year into identifying all asteroids hurtling too close to earth. "There are very few things people can do to save the world," he says. "This is one of them...