Word: platonov
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...seasons ago. Seven earlier scripts have been produced, most of them in London and by companies in Seattle, Dallas, Washington and New Haven. His dark comedy Benefactors is the Broadway season's most acclaimed play. Wild Honey, Frayn's bold adaptation of the young Anton Chekhov's Platonov, packed the house at London's National Theater and is due in the U.S. this fall. And in March, Frayn's first film, a rueful comedy called Clockwise, opens in Lon don. Typical of Frayn, who has "always adored farce," his plot revolves around a social-climbing headmaster (John Cleese) who misses...
...Moscow government defended itself in part by accusing the plaintiffs of greed. The city faces financial disaster if it has to compensate citizens for terrorist acts, the argument went, and the theater attack is neither the first Chechen operation nor is it likely to be the last. Vladimir Platonov, chairman of the Moscow City Duma, said the plaintiffs were digging into the pockets of average citizens. "Sue the Chechen guerrillas and their backers," suggested Andrei Rastorguyev, legal adviser to the Moscow government, reflecting his bosses' position. Under antiterror legislation, the region (or federation unit) in which an attack occurs must...
...Russian specialist in computer crime remarks, "I think our American friends are very interested in the Pakistan Hackerz Club [a pro-Pakistan hacker group]," which they apparently suspect of having contacts with radical groups. Al-Qaeda works like any other criminal group in the world of computers, says Anatoly Platonov of the Interior Ministry's Directorate K, which also deals with cybercrime. "They have the money and are looking for the brains." Sooner or later, specialists believe, they will find them...