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...Eliot again. Another time, Vladimir Nabokov came for a meal...
...Misha, Argentina boasts islands inhabited by birds of his breed. After stints in Ukraine and Chechnya, what more could a tuckered-out penguin ask for? Flightless birds aren't the only characters in Kurkov's absurdly realistic landscape. In his 2004 novel, The President's Last Love, Russian President Vladimir Putin duly steps down when his second term expires in 2008, but makes a comeback in 2012. (The scenario isn't so far-fetched: late last month, Russian State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov suggested it would be constitutionally acceptable for Putin to return to office then.) The novel follows Putin...
...countering terrorism in the region." Ahmadinejad responded by warning SCO nations against "domineering powers [who] use their force against and interfere in the affairs of other states." Still, the regional conference could prove useful in curbing Iran's nuclear ambitions. After meeting on the sidelines with both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Hu Jintao, Ahmadinejad softened his tough rhetoric, saying on Friday that a package of incentives designed by the international community to stop Iran from enriching uranium was "a step forward." Small words, but enough to make the SCO feel like it's got some power, after...
...When Humbert Humbert sadly apostrophized his absent inamorata by crying, "Oh my Lolita, I have only words to play with!", he was selling words short. Vladimir Nabokov, the verboleptic who dreamed up Humbert, surely knew this, as do his readers: Lolita is the wordplay lover's favorite novel. Numbers have their power; they can be squared, cubed, extended to infinity. But they can't match the universe of ideas and feelings that come into being when letters collide. Words create worlds...
...site was up and running the next day. One of those cases has since been returned to the prosecutor's office by a judge, "to remove deficiencies." The IFPI, for its part, is seeking civil damages against Kvasov and Mamotin, but may be chasing shadows. "Both are figureheads," says Vladimir Dragunov, an IFPI lawyer in Moscow. "The real owners are hard to trace. We only know that a Cyprus-based company recently bought and now operates Mediaservices...