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...DURING THE DEFENSE summation in the U.S. District Court wire-fraud proceedings against boxing promoter Don King, his premier fighter, the convicted rapist Mike Tyson, could be seen dozing off on a bench in the back of the New York City courtroom, holding a book of essays by Leo Tolstoy: What Is Art? At the time, Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment seemed a better choice: the prosecution had called 18 witnesses to back up its claim that King falsified a contract to collect $350,000 from Lloyd's of London for a canceled fight in 1991, and the defense...
LOVE: Greta Garbo's 1935 turn as Anna Karenina was faithful to Leo Tolstoy: Anna indeed ends her life under the wheels of a passing passenger train. But in 1927 she appeared in a silent-movie adaptation, which, in one version, concluded with Anna reunited with her lover Vronsky after the convenient death of her husband...
Zorack used the words of Leo Tolstoy to help convey the intricacies of the American system to his Russian students...
...Tolstoy said that laws and institutions gravitate like clocks; they must be occasionally cleaned, checked, and set to time," Zorack said. "In the U.S. it's the same...
...Tolstoy, famously fault finding, disliked Uncle Vanya. "Where is the drama?" he demanded. "It doesn't go anywhere." True, bullets are fired, but nobody is felled; vows of love are tendered, but none are consummated. Vanya is someone who has come to realize, belatedly, that his life "has been hopelessly wasted." He has sacrificed everything for his elderly brother-in-law, a pompous professor. Vanya's despair and resignation eventually give way to hysterical action: he picks up a pistol and goes after his brother-in-law. As usual, his aim is off, leaving him rueful: "To have made such...