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...Gotta Dance Missed last weekend’s once-in-a-lifetime “Swan Lake” performance by the Russian Kirov Ballet? To make up for your cultural ignorance, the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center (that’s so Cambridge...) presents a preview of the Boston-based dance company Snappy Dance Theater’s original production, “String Beings.” According to Snappy’s website, the performance “explores the relationship between manipulating and being manipulated.” Don’t forget your rape whistle...
...such as Australia's Alan Bond and yen jillionaires like Ryoei Saito chased Van Goghs to the stratosphere. (Saito paid $82.5 million for Portrait of Dr. Gachet.) Dotcom entrepreneurs with Internet funny money bought Impressionists and Pop Art. Today a new generation of hedge-fund billionaires and Chinese and Russian kleptocrats is part of an ocean of capital flowing into galleries and auction houses. "There seem to be no limits to what people will pay, and in every kind of art," says art-tax specialist Ralph Lerner, whose clients include some of the country's biggest collectors...
...Russian authorities to consider banning the film...
...Numbers $240 billion Amount taken in bribes by Russian bureaucrats each year, according to the country's Deputy Prosecutor General $259 billion Russia's predicted budget revenues...
...left him free to reinvent himself, which he did with a mix of cynicism and egotism he might have admired in any of his best agents. Always immaculately dressed and well-spoken, he became a minor public figure. In addition to his memoirs, he wrote a cookbook, Secrets of Russian Cooking, that compared the creativity and craftsmanship of cooking to that of spying. He was also a regular on chat shows and documentaries. He died in his sleep, prosperous and pleased with himself. Had his side won the Cold War, his vanquished counterparts from West Germany would not have been...