Word: ukrainians
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...stop crying and start laughing again? Jonathan Safran Foer's first novel, Everything Is Illuminated (Houghton Mifflin; 276 pages), is a very funny book about very tragic times, and it's just a little bit nervous about being so funny. After one comic aside, the narrator--a Ukrainian would-be hipster (and remedial English student) named Alexander Perchov--feels as if he has to reassure his audience: "It was not wrong to make a funny here. It was the right thing...
...Negroes, particularly Michael Jackson. I dig to disseminate very much currency at famous nightclubs in Odessa." (His English gets better--and less hilarious--as the book goes on.) Accompanied by Perchov's narcoleptic grandfather and a flatulent dog named Sammy Davis Jr., Foer and Perchov set off into the Ukrainian countryside to search for what's left of present-day Trachimbrod...
Matters came to a head in Moscow last December, when FIDE and Kasparov staged simultaneous rival tournaments in the same city. Without either Kasparov or No. 2-ranked Vladimir Kramnik in attendance, FIDE ended up crowning an 18-year-old Ukrainian named Ruslan Ponomariov. Last week Kasparov gave the whiz kid the grandmaster of all spankings at a tournament in Spain...
...revealed the voice of President Leonid Kuchma - misleadingly edited, his aides claim - saying that an investigative journalist should be "given" to the Chechens. The journalist was later found dead. It did not have to be this way. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the leaders of the new Ukrainian state had plenty to worry about. Russian subversion, for example, or the ecological damage wrought on their land by the Kremlin's industrial policies. But at least the country was economically and culturally viable, they said. They were overly optimistic. Ukraine's first 10 years of independence have turned...
DIED. NIKOLAY SOLTYS, 28, Ukrainian immigrant jailed for the alleged murder of his pregnant wife, son and four other family members; a suicide by hanging; in his cell in Sacramento, Calif. Soltys was caught hiding in the backyard of his mother's home after a 10-day manhunt last August...