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DIED. NATALYA RESHETOVSKAYA, 84, Russian pianist and scientist better known for her tumultuous two marriages to dissident author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; in Moscow. In a 1974 memoir of their life together, she questioned some of the descriptions of Stalin's prison camps in Solzhenitsyn's book The Gulag Archipelago, calling them "camp folklore." She split from her husband in 1970 but as recently as last year said, "I love him right up to this moment...
...hours at the lowest quality. That isn't anything like the limit--you can get up to 344 hours on the 320-gigabyte drive--but it's enough to record every single West Wing ever broadcast. And maybe I'll have space left for a nice long Russian movie...
...brands around star athletes," says IMG sports agent Max Eisenbud. "There is a reason they're getting involved with this kid. If he dominates the sport at 17, it's not a big investment." Two years ago Nike signed tennis prodigy Brendan Evans, now 17, for $250,000, and Russian tennis ace Maria Sharapova, 16, pocketed $750,000 from Prince. The lucrative deals are a risk: athletic-company endorsements mean the kids lose amateur status and can't compete in college athletics, which can push them prematurely into the pro arena. The parents of tennis wunderkind Donald Young...
...Like so much of Central Asia, contemporary Karachi is also a product of the Soviet Union's 1979 invasion of Afghanistan and the jihad declared by much of the Muslim world in response. To fund their campaign against the Russian occupiers, Afghan warlords used Pakistan as a transshipment point for heroin and Karachi as a major point of export. Paid for in part by those narco-dollars were the vast shipments of small arms and Stinger missiles passing the other way through Karachi before being loaded onto trucks bound for Peshawar and eventually camels headed for Afghanistan's interior. Those...
...colorless slums. "What do you want?" asks stylist Amin, who looks like a brawny pirate. He has two silver rings in one ear and dark eyebrows arched like two hissing cats. He picks up his cell phone and jokingly plays the part of a low-life genie: "A Russian hooker who looks like Pamela Anderson? Ecstasy? A bottle of Black Label? An AK-47, or a 40-carat diamond? It's all here?just a phone call away." In his sleek, black outfits and his silver bracelets, Amin is a familiar figure at Karachi's private parties and rave clubs...