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How Australia got its first saint

SYDNEY, Australia — In 1993, a large-cell carcinoma was found in Australian woman Kathleen Evans' right lung. Following further medical examination, a secondary tumor was discovered in her brain. The Australian mother of five was given a grim diagnosis: ...

From MARINA KAMENEV, Global Post,  26 Feb 2010
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The Colors of Light

His beach photographs are pale with bright injections of color. One is taken with a torn cloth immediately in front of the lens, providing an interesting texture that filters our view of a beach. The pastel colors of Harry ...

From MARINA KAMENEV, The Moscow Times,  27 Mar 2008
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Crazy, Sexy and Very Cool

Kaghado set up meetings with a number of top fashion editors, including Anzor Kankulov, then the editor of "OM Magazine," now the editor of "Harper's Bazaar, who has written the foreword to the book. And Kaghado has since ...

From MARINA KAMENEV, The Moscow Times,  27 Mar 2008

State of the Art

The prize for Best Work of Visual Art went to "Lake" by the group Blue Soup. Innovation was not the first word that came to mind when looking at pasta sculptures, reincarnation's of Malevich's black square and a video of two opera singers at the ...

From MARINA KAMENEV, The Moscow Times,  27 Mar 2008
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Hope for Utopia

Oil and gold prices punched through to new highs last week, a rare bright spot for some speculators in what was otherwise another week of shuddering losses in the United States.   >> It was early March 2000 when Vladimir Putin landed in Surgut, one ...

From MARINA KAMENEV, The Moscow Times,  20 Mar 2008
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Lost But Not Forgotten

"The main point of the web site is to get a picture of the losses in Russian art, to see if it's possible to get the lost works back and to see if these works exist in Russia or overseas. This has been very tedious work," the head ...

From MARINA KAMENEV, The Moscow Times,  14 Feb 2008
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Steps Back in Time

Stairs descend from a tiny entrance hall into Starkova's living room, which has a high ceiling and a huge window looking onto the Moscow River. The room leads into a small kitchen area and a low-ceilinged bedroom, lit by a strip ...

From MARINA KAMENEV, The Moscow Times,  14 Feb 2008

Romancing the President

The film's poster looks like an image from a campaign tour. The president and his wife hold hands as he waves to an invisible audience. The background shows camera flashes and the red, white and blue colors of the Russian flag. ...

From MARINA KAMENEV, The Moscow Times,  7 Feb 2008
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Painful Recollections

This photograph shows Borisov still living in Russia, where he was confined to his apartment. While Russian emigres inhabit all the corners of the world, Anton Borisov has a strikingly unusual story. Born with brittle-bone disease, the 42-year-old left ...

From MARINA KAMENEV, The Moscow Times,  31 Jan 2008

In All the Right Places

"When people hire Danila, they are hiring a personality, not just a face to wear their clothes," Kankulov said. "He is not for every designer." Before he was signed by Storm in 2002, Polyakov did a bit of modeling and performed ...

From MARINA KAMENEV, The Moscow Times,  31 Jan 2008
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