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...WINTER QUEEN, by Boris Akunin (Random House; 244 pages...
...glamorous whirl of moneyed expatriates and gambling, champagne-guzzling aristocrats. You'll understand right away what the Russians see in Akunin: he writes gloriously pre-Soviet prose, sophisticated and suffused in Slavic melancholy and thoroughly worthy of 19th century forebears like Gogol and Chekhov. The Winter Queen is as delicate and elegant as a Faberge egg, and, thank the Czars, we still have nine more untranslated Fandorin mysteries to look forward...
...baby. Look for Chandra Sturrup of the Bahamas and Zhanna Block of Ukraine to step up in Jones' absence. Paris will be the last World Championship for Jamaican-born sprinter Merlene Ottey, 43, who now runs for Slovenia. Over her 25 years in international competition, the elegant track queen has racked up 28 World and Olympic medals, more than any other woman. But even she has her eye on next year: though a medal in Paris would be great, one in Athens would be even better - the ultimate cap to a glittering career...
...storm. Cruz sang with everybody who was anybody in Latin music--fronting Johnny Pacheco's band, appearing with Tito Puente in the movie The Mambo Kings--and many future somebodies were listening. Marc Anthony, Jennifer Lopez, Ruben Blades and La India acknowledged her influence. Known as the Queen of Salsa, she once said, "Salsa is ... all the Cuban rhythms under one name." You could say the same about Cruz. --By Christopher John Farley
...countries of the Mediterranean basin. It was in the Spanish city of Granada that King Boabdil, the last Moorish monarch of Muslim al-Andalus, made his final stand against the Christian forces of the reconquista before fleeing to North Africa. Here, too, are buried Ferdinand of Aragon and his queen, Isabella of Castile, who ousted Boabdil in 1492 and later reneged on a promise to allow religious tolerance in their newly conquered kingdom. These days Ferdinand and Isabella must be spinning in their shared mausoleum. For the first time in five centuries the cry of the muezzin can be heard...