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...nerves jangled by Sept. 11, her husband tempted by a schmancy new job, New Yorker Amy Wilentz pulled up stakes and moved across the country to Los Angeles. What she knew of California was largely derived from Beach Boys lyrics. What she found "felt a lot like the Third World": a state beset by fires, floods, earthquakes, energy shortages, debt and political crisis. "I had arrived in L.A. hoping to avoid catastrophe," Wilentz writes in her new book, I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen (Simon & Schuster; 322 pages), "only to find that I was living in its capital...
...overseas arm of British intelligence, to reveal the identities of several dozen Russian secret agents stationed in Europe. He retired in 1999, but used his intelligence connections to keep working for the British, earning an estimated $100,000 before his arrest in December 2004. CHARGED. Nikolai Zavadsky, 54, husband of the late Larisa Zavadsky, curator at Russia's Hermitage Museum, and his son, also Nikolai Zavadsky, 25; with theft; in St. Petersburg. Zavadsky senior confessed to helping his wife smuggle 53 items, including gifts to Russia's last Tsar, out of the Hermitage. A further 221 exhibits, worth some...
...Many of Lenny's routines were either tart showbiz tales (his 20min. saga of a lousy comic playing the London Palladium) or just funny-silly (a woman comes home to find her husband in bed with a chicken ? a love object that, 10 years later, Woody Allen would turn into a sheep and, 35 years on, Edward Albee would make a goat). But the repertoire he had in mind was much broader, deeper, riskier than those. So, with a mixture of bravery and bravado, Lenny decided to bring the intimacy and threat of uninhibited talk to the nightclub stage...
...wasn't going to let him know whether I was Jewish or not. I answered every question truthfully but in a way that gave nothing away. Yes, I knew a little Hebrew, which I'd learned in Israel. Yes, I had family in the country: my husband, stepson and children. No, I had not volunteered on a kibbutz. And so on. When finally the time of my flight's departure passed, I leaned forward and said to the agent: "Listen, I'm not Jewish." "Well, nobody's perfect," he said, and put me on the next flight...
...hotel, the Borroloola Inn, feeds the mayhem by serving people who are obviously drunk. The operators say the unfair accusations have driven them to put the pub up for sale. "The hotel in any Aboriginal community is probably looked on as a monster," says Christopher Taylor, the licensee's husband. To limit the risk of problems, he says, closing time on Sundays has been brought forward...