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...from Sochi - the host city of the 2014 Winter Olympics. But Koval's reckoning of future wealth turned sour early this year when it started looking as if a government decree requisitioning his property for Olympic development could render his home and source of income all but worthless. "The prospect of confiscation has killed the real estate market in the area," says Koval. "Who is going to buy if we all know that the state takes over?" Thousands of other homeowners around Sochi share his worry...
...land prices fivefold since last July; in April, a sotka in the area was on sale in a price range of $100,000 to $200,000. The Kovals figure they could have sold their four sotkas and the boarding house for $1.5 million, enough to move someplace else. That prospect has evaporated, while the threat of wholesale eviction now looms...
...reader should stumble across a sign of something that seems alien, the reams of paperwork aren't likely to explain it. "There is no smoking gun in these files," Pope says. "There's no spaceship in an airplane hangar." Still, he's not ready to dismiss the prospect that there's something deep in the data to suggest that there is indeed something out there...
...lack of bitterness that makes his best pieces so moving. In "Living with Her" - reminiscent of Matthew Arnold's classic "Dover Beach" - Lee's wife urges him to come away from the window and simply lie down. Ignorant armies still clash in the night, but the prospect of a quiet moment of shared love, Lee reminds us, is enough reason to keep praising our mutilated world. "Alone in your favorite chair/ with a book you enjoy/ is fine," he writes at the end of one poem. "But spooning/ is even better." Even a past as turbulent...
...form part of a wider judicial reform process that would also limit the powers of the Chief Justice. But the issue may be more than simply technical: given Musharraf's opposition to the return of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry as head of the judiciary - which would raise the prospect of Musharraf's ouster on legal grounds - a restoration of the judges could provoke a backlash. Zardari's party is more willing than Sharif is to work with Musharraf, who still enjoys considerable support within the military and from the U.S. (which sees him as a reliable ally...