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Vladimir Putin is handing the keys of his central bank to a poetry-loving Francophile who pays homage to the victims of Russia’s totalitarian past.
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Two men greeted him at the police station as he was escorted in from the January cold. Peng Chengxian didn’t ask who they were. Each wore a light-colored jacket and carried a dark handbag.
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Give Benigno Aquino an A+ so far as Philippine president.
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Is the U.S. tax code an instrument of torture? At almost 4 million words, it is 14 times as long as the collected novels of, say, Franz Kafka. It has been changed 4,680 times since 2001 -- more than once a day, according to the IRS Taxpayer Advocate. And it takes taxpayers (individuals and businesses) more than 6 billion hours to complete their filings.
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Franz Kafka had something in common with Adam Smith , the father of modern economics. They shared a vision of a system running on its own steam, writes Kaushik Basu in his alluring new book, “Beyond the Invisible Hand.”
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Sometime before Mary Roach’s new book got the title “Gulp,” I like to think that’s what her editor did in mock, cartoonish panic on hearing that the author planned to dive into the human digestive system.
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A cache of as yet unseen Franz Kafka manuscripts will be made available online to scholars after an Israeli court ruled they weren’t given as a gift to the secretary of the author’s executor and friend Max Brod.
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“Waterloo Sunset” is best heard on a summer evening alongside the Thames, performed by the man who wrote it.
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A doll receives a brain transplant in a tailor shop, and a crucified pocket watch spews viscera -- welcome to the romantic-grotesque world of the Quay Brothers.
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Grace Jones, in a black corset, pole- danced through “Ma Vie en Rose.” Jarvis Cocker performed an ungainly striptease and reunited his band Pulp after a decade.
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