Several big names have voted with their feet. The Russian business daily Vedomosti reported on Monday that Lev Khasis, a former senior executive at the state-owned Sberbank, had left the country for the US.

The Telfaire prisonguard towers rise miragelike in the swampy sunlight like giant mushroom caps on grey concrete stalks.

Bibliography series follows the by now familiar format, with some fifteen hundred annotated entries concentrating rather heavily on physics and philosophy but also including sections on schools and universities and on 'quasiscience'.

The Nixon campaign in 1968[…] had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. […] [B]y getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities.