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...Ukraine nearly came to blows late last year over this strategically placed islet, which guards the only shipping lane from the landlocked Azov Sea to the Black Sea. Tensions eased last week with the ratification of an accord to share the Azov's waterways?but Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says the fate of Tuzla itself has yet to be decided...
...GOOGLE GUYS Young, nerdy, ready to IPO: Larry Page, Eric Schmidt and Sergey Brin made it seem not so much like 2003 but 1999. Page and Brin created the Google.com search engine in '98 and quietly built it into the Web's largest. Now they and CEO Schmidt are planning an IPO that could raise $2 billion. Competitors are swirling below, but who else has invented a new verb? If you need info on a new bar, new film, new fling, whatever--you Google...
...least not directly--searching is free. Everybody assumed that one day somebody would figure out a way to reap dollars from it. But what's even more surprising is that the first round of the search wars was won by two twentysomething Stanford graduate students named Sergey Brin and Larry Page. In 1998 Brin and Page invented a new kind of search engine, one that assessed the importance of a Web page based not on a simple keyword search but on how many and what kinds of websites link to that Web page. Their approach delivered search results that creamed...
...this is not to say that the production has no good qualities. The set, designed by Sergey Barkhin, is too busy but is creatively employed; a single piece of scenery, such as a large gray drop cloth, variously becomes a bed sheet, a snowbank and hotel upholstery. The music, composed by Leonid Desyatnikov, is catchy if far too loud. Michael Chybowski, the lighting designer, creates beautiful scenes of glowing parasols, gleaming water and golden dust against the black background of the stage. The actors, especially Waterston as the beautiful and fiercely determined young adulteress, are all competent, though their frenetic...
...Sokurov) explaining that he has just awoken after a terrible, mysterious “accident.” The audience and the Author next find themselves in 18th century Russia, being led through a museum-tour through history by another time traveler, a 19th-century Frenchman, the Marquis (Sergey Dreiden...