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...Carroll allowed "Bing to be Bing, only more so." He added flourishes to Crosby's facility for mixing sesquipedalian phraseology with hipster slang. One tangy aside was apparently not written by Carroll. After a solo by one-armed trumpeter Wingy Malone, Bing quipped, "Man, that was dirtier than a Russian horse-doctor's valise...
...happy pig or an unhappy Socrates. But these decisions are no more (and no less) complex than a thousand other ethical concerns. To refrain from them simply because the buzzword "genetic engineering" is involved does not guarantee a child an "open future" but rather a random future, a Russian roulette future. No child is made more "free" if his or her hair color, number of limbs or even sexual orientation is chosen by chance rather than design...
...child who reimagines the lives of her parents clearly is also bound to paint her own self-portrait using the reflections in their eyes. And so it happens for Devorah Arnow as she memorializes her mother Chenia, a Russian Jewish emigre who settled in Brooklyn in the middle of the 20th century, raised a family, grew old, but never really got off the boat from Europe. Chenia, as Devorah reconstructs her in Carole Glickfeld's Swimming Toward the Ocean (Knopf; 388 pages; $24), lingers on a sort of moral gangplank with a view of the dazzling rides at Coney Island...
...Although Kuchma had been supportive of NATO in recent years, he's been all over the map, politically. He came to power with the image of a dull Soviet-era factory manager, which, of course, he was. And he was clearly as comfortable speaking Russian as he was speaking Ukrainian. In Moscow, his moves toward the West in recent years have been viewed as gamesmanship...
...much, really. He could use his body language to demonstrate that he's on Kuchma's side, but Putin is not very good at that. The Russians may be poking around for a way to give him support, hoping to collect on the debt later. The Russian media, even those outlets close to the Kremlin, have signaled pretty clearly that Putin is going to try and get all the leverage he can out of Kuchma's troubles. But they haven't laid out what he can do, probably because the Russians themselves don't really know what they...