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What prompted your move from music to acting? Victor Anazodo LAGOS, NIGERIA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Queen Latifah | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

...billion to bail out Iceland, when Iceland's traditional allies weren't offering the money? After all, Russia has its own grave financial issues to deal with. Does the country really expect to be paid back in "the famous Icelandic herring, popular in Russia since Soviet times?" as Victor Tatarintsev, Russian ambassador to Iceland, noted in an interview on Russian television. More likely, this act of benevolence is being viewed as a way for Russia to help secure a bridgehead for an advance into the Arctic regions to claim the vast hydrocarbon and other mineral deposits there. Iceland also happens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Russia Is Bailing Out Iceland | 10/13/2008 | See Source »

...Victor S. Navasky, former publisher of The Nation, agreed...

Author: By Adeline S. Rolnick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Grad Nabs Progressive Prize | 10/6/2008 | See Source »

...Fingleton felt that Bradman used his influence to have the opener miss a tour of England, and other episodes, much debated, cemented his belief that Bradman was inclined to betray team-mates and cover his tracks. Were these grievances playing on Fingleton when he wrote The Immortal Victor Trumper, a biography of his cricketing hero? He could wait no longer than its second paragraph to proclaim: "To me, Trumper remains the greatest batsman who ever lived. Bradman could be rightly advanced against him, but whereas Bradman ... operated upon bowlers like a butcher at the abattoirs ... Trumper was like a surgeon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Knocking Down The Don | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...sexual gluttony that hastens in its wake. Whether it’s Gregg’s unsuccessful adaptation of the novel or the book’s basic incompatibility with the screen, many bits of dialogue seem more unimportant than stupid—but not by much. Rockwell plays Victor, a 30-something sex addict who divides his time between his job as an “historical interpreter” at a colonial village, serving as a sponsor at nymphomaniacs-anonymous meetings (where he leads fellow addicts astray), and being a son devoted to a mother slipping into dementia...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Choke | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

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