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“a driving instructor from Russia who strongly disliked George W.
Bush.” While attending the College of New Jersey, he started a news
magazine, The Perspective, with money from George Soros.
“The highlight of my editorship,” he says, “was probably when Mike
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incest and drug use.”
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about the developing world’s private mass-transit solutions in
“What Sub-Saharan Africa Can Teach San Francisco” (page 30).
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research purposes 30 times since 2000. While there, he takes mass
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mini-buses, a taxi driver, or even a motorcycle driver,” he says.
Sometimes that means sitting next to animals. But he says that’s
rarely a problem. “Africans usually maintain their animals well,”
he says. “Chickens can stay surprisingly calm.”
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actually love to ventriloquize through him,” he says, “but only as
comedy.” Russell is currently developing a graphic-novel version of
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