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...prize to Scott Turow, author of "Reversible Errors" (Farrar, Straus; November 1), bestowing a starred review. "A final appeal from Death Row reopens a decade-old murder case as the world's preeminent legal novelist proves once again why his grasp of the moral dimensions sets the gold standard for the genre....No car chases, explosions, threats against the detective, movie-star locations, or gourmet meals; just a deeply satisfying novel about deeply human people who just happen to be victims, schemers, counselors-at-law, or all three at once." (First printing of 750,000; author tour...
Italian and U.S. officials last week fingered Tokhtakhounov, 53, a bull-headed Uzbek long linked with the Russian Mafia, as the mind behind the skating scandal at last winter's Salt Lake City Olympics, when tumble-down Russian pairs skaters Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze won gold over Jamie Sale and David Pelletier, the Canadian duo who gave a demonstrably superior performance. Now implicated in the mess are the gold-winning French ice-dance team of Russian-born Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat. Anissina and her mother are the two women believed to be caught on tape talking with Tokhtakhounov...
...Attorney James Comey, who announced the indictment in New York City, alleged that Tokhtakhounov "arranged a classic quid pro quo: 'You'll line up support for the Russian pair; we'll line up support for the French pair; and everybody will go away with the gold, and perhaps there'll be a little gold for me.'" The gold for Tokhtakhounov, Comey said, was to be the renewal of his expired French visa--which he never got. A simpler explanation might be that this tough guy was doing a favor for an even tougher mama...
...City, was that some of them were foolish to think their knavery would go undetected. A day after the pairs final, a French judge admitted she had been pressured to favor the Russians' klutzy turn over the Canadians' sublime skate. The ensuing uproar, which resulted in the awarding of gold medals to both teams, cast a pall on the International Skating Union and the high-strung community of ice divas. But until now, who imagined...
...discovered when the diabolical Karl (played by Richard Roxburgh) sets his sights on it. (We know Karl is evil from the start because he wears a black silk smoking jacket and uses words such as apropos.) Karl hires Eric (Chaplin), a master thief with the requisite heart of gold, to help him get the sharira. In turn, Eric involves his old girlfriend Lin (Yeoh) and her little brother Tong (Brandon Chang), star performers in a Chinese circus and descendants of the acrobatic family of destiny. The action careens from Qingdao to Dun Huang to Tibet, stopping for comic relief along...