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...Security, and more like the excellent crime thriller it might have been (and sort of is). Thankfully, Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Wahlberg bolster Gray’s average direction and his amateurish screenplay. Phoenix’s character, Bobby, runs a Brooklyn nightclub under the auspices of a shifty Russian family, while Wahlberg’s character, Bobby’s brother Joseph, serves as a decorated police officer and lives in the shadow of his father, the chief of police. When the Russian mob tries to use Bobby’s connections to move their cocaine into the city...
...gathering of skilled laborers, affords congregants a chance to swap notes on craft: in this case, new strings and rosin, drills for thumb position, double stops and staccato at the frog. But this year's festival, which ran Oct. 3-7, was different. The absence of the great Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, who co-founded the biennial event in 1993 and died in April aged 80, left its participants pondering his legacy and celebrating the unexpectedly prominent role he and his instrument had played in the history of the 20th century...
...Orchestra three years later, TIME put him on its cover, branding him, with cold-war gusto, "Washington's greatest new monument." But he always maintained a refugee's yearning for his homeland, and this only intensified the pathos of his playing. His Paris apartment was a veritable Hermitage of Russian artifacts, and even after he was stripped of his citizenship, he proudly described himself as Russian, an allegiance he affirmed by flying to Moscow earlier this year when he learned that he was dying...
...throughout Santiago. "They had us do an American-style integrity-management review of their pipeline, because they want to adopt the same standards that we have here," says Schutt. Green concerns are also a strong motivator to protect pipelines, as was the case with a recently completed project in Russian-owned Sakhalin Island, which "is a huge environmental reserve with a lot of beautiful wildlife," he says...
...56 m) sailing yacht Selene, for example, they are met by the captain, steward and seven other crew members, including the chef, Justin Arblaster. The world is his supermarket. Aged beef is flown in from England, truffles from Italy and foie gras from Strasbourg. "If the guests want Russian caviar, I can have it flown in to where we are by helicopter or seaplane," Arblaster says...