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...break out of poverty." What he often fails to mention in his Horatio Alger?style tale is that he spent almost four years in jail as a teenager for robbery and assault, though the charges were later reversed. Genial but wooden tongued, more fluent in Russian than Ukrainian, Yanukovych is reminiscent of a Soviet-era party boss, an image aided by his almost 2 m, 109-kg frame. That style goes down well in his conservative home base in the Donbass, Ukraine's industrial powerhouse, where the Russian-leaning (and -speaking) population tends to view his rival, Viktor Yushchenko...
...Aznar may have been out of power for seven months, but it's still coming under heavy fire. The latest scandal concerns the May 26, 2003, plane crash that claimed the lives of 62 Spanish soldiers who were returning from peacekeeping duty in Afghanistan when their Ukrainian-registered Yakovlev-42 aircraft went down in the mountains of Turkey. Aznar's government was criticized by the families of the deceased for transporting them in an old plane in such poor condition. Now it turns out that the bodies of 30 of those soldiers were incorrectly identified - and sent to the wrong...
...them in their fight. Four years later, both women are cancer free, but Andre has continued to aid the anticancer cause with fund-raising tennis events and by contributing to Tami Agassi's recently published Star Palate cookbook (Documentary Media). The book gathers recipes from celebrities like Anna Kournikova (Ukrainian borscht), Emeril Lagasse (veal shanks), Britney Spears (seafood pasta) and even Bill Gates (clam chowder). All proceeds will go to breast- and ovarian-cancer research. Andre and his wife, tennis great Steffi Graf, contributed their favorite roast-turkey recipe. "Stef and I really enjoy spending time together in the kitchen...
...Ukrainian author Dubravka Ugresic will read from and discuss her new essay compendium, Thank You for Not Reading: Essays on Literary Trivia. Her commentary on the increasingly commercial emphasis of literature as opposed to a culture of reading and writing built on the power of words and ideas is well worth the time. Free. Harvard Information Center, in the Holyoke Center...
...that takes place in a day at the shadowy Castle Vogelod. The film is set several months after a murder, when mysterious circumstances bring together key suspects and a host of peculiar characters. Enjoy one of the master’s earliest silent works with live piano accompaniment by Ukrainian HFA composer in residence Yakov Gubanov. Tickets $6. 9 p.m. Harvard Film Archive...