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...book begins by openly challenging the model for daily life in the Soviet Union in a series of stories that emphasize the various shortcomings and irrationalities of the Soviet regime. “Paris Lost” by Wladimir Kaminer is the account of a counterfeit Paris, built by the Soviet government as part of a program to supposedly send some of the nation’s most productive workers on a free vacation to the European center of culture. Of course, they couldn’t possibly do this in reality—after all, capitalist temptations were lying...
...This was the third heavyweight title fight in Moscow in the last year, since the current wave of homegrown boxers has overtaken the division. An ex-Soviet fighter holds each of the four heavyweight championship belts: Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko (IBF), Kazak Oleg Maskaev (WBC), Uzbek Ruslan Chagaev (WBA), and the Russian Ibragimov...
...child in soviet Ukraine, Wladimir Klitschko was so enamored of all things American that he sniffed the carbonated air from a bootlegged bottle of Coca-Cola to "smell" the free world. "We felt then like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island," says Klitschko, 26. Now, having visited the U.S. more than 100 times on his way to becoming one of the world's top boxers, Klitschko has grown accustomed to another fragrance - the sweet smell of success...
...Klitschkos' prowess on the board. Vitaly held his own against Garry Kasparov in an exhibition match last year and played current world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik to a draw earlier this year. Vitaly is the stronger chess player, but he concedes that his little brother is "the better boxer. Wladimir is the future in boxing," he predicts. For the moment, at least, that future lies in America. Wladimir has been practicing his English as diligently as he has been training. His regimen includes studying a chart of verb conjugations in his promoter's office in Hamburg, where the brothers have...
...plans in the coming weeks, and a line of challengers is forming. But will he bother to fight any of them? A mandatory defense of his ibf title is due against Chris Byrd, wba holder John Ruiz is also waiting and there is the young Ukrainian WBO holder Wladimir Klitschko. Lewis may have lost some motivation, but he hasn't lost his financial sense. "If they want me to fight those guys they're gonna have to pay me money just to get me back into training," he said. "From now on it's strictly a business decision...