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...triumph for the increasingly controlled Russian media. But despite the strength of this symbol, serious threats challenge the freedom of the Russian press. Russia’s lower house of parliament, the Duma, has just voted to extend new restrictions on a press that is already the subject to random raids and blackouts...
Whether for love of art or of money, book publisher Random House has decided to revive the Godfather saga. The problem is, the novel's author, Mario Puzo, died in 1999. To get around that, Random House senior editor Jonathan Karp, who worked with Puzo at the end of his life, sent an e-mail to literary agents to seek an author who is at roughly the same career point that Puzo was when he wrote the novel in 1969. There may not be too many writers eager to confess to that. Puzo said he wrote the story...
Kirkland House security guard by night, and math whiz by night, too, Bob Butler has become notorious for asking random river-area pedestrians for the day, month and year of their birth. Those who oblige are rewarded with an immediate calculation of which day of the week they were born...
Where to find you on a Saturday night: Rugby socials, random parties, generally bummin’ around...
...wasn’t that precocious a reader, he remembers associating the colors of countries with names and capitals. As he grew up, his knowledge intensified: “Just like kids could rattle of baseball statistics I could remember geography facts—capitals, main exports, just really random facts...