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...characters are galley slaves,” Vladimir Nabokov told the Paris Review in 1967—and he was telling the truth. It isn’t difficult to imagine any one of his memorable protagonists as helpless prisoners, each chained to his oar on Nabokov’s ship—Pnin to indifference (against which he cracks), Kimbote to delusion (to which he succumbs), Humbert to lust (which drives him to kidnap and murder). The more forward motion these characters seemed to make, the clearer it became to the reader that they were stuck in the same...
...made it clear they no longer believe much of anything Washington's current batch of news-cycle-obsessed, responsibility-dodging wolf criers have to say. After eight years of George W. Bush's supremely confident but frequently wrong statements about everything from WMD to the inherent goodness of Vladimir Putin--and after former Bush press secretary Scott McClellan confessed the irrelevance of truth to his p.r. strategy--his television appearances are now widely ignored, and his approval ratings have touched an all-time low of 23%, according to a new TIME poll. His Treasury Secretary, former Goldman Sachs CEO Henry...
...Russia carried out its threat to bomb the missile sites, then either the United States or NATO would have to respond because of treaty obligations. Even if the missile deal itself does not provoke conflict, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has warned that the deal will lead to “an inevitable arms race” between Russia and the U.S. The U.S. should avoid such provocations as much as possible, without making significant sacrifices to its own security and that of its allies...
...have echoed Beam's assessment that Palin resembled a "high schooler trying to BS her way through a book report," which is an insult to both high schoolers and BS. Palin's answers were hesitant, convoluted and, at times - like when she appeared to suggest that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin might be preparing a one-man airborne invasion of Alaska - downright loony...
...Some Russia watchers are expecting much more upheaval. Vladimir Savov, an analyst for Credit Suisse in Moscow, sees the recent turmoil as the beginning of a broad consolidation of Russia's highly-leveraged banking sector. "We want to hope that this will improve the resilience of Russia's financial markets in the long term," he says, "although in the near term the process could be painful." Renaissance says it had been in talks for some time and didn't act out of distress. But its move came a few days after the first financial institution fell victim to the crisis...