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Whether we as readers came of age in the americas , the antipodes or elsewhere in the far-flung commonwealth , the poems and novels we encountered in the last half of the 20th century came first and foremost from shakespeare 's scepter 'd isle .
It 's being slowly swallowed up by the nebula that is a new entity set up by putin known as the national people 's front , while united russia will now be led through the parliamentary elections by medvedev , a man who was just publicly stripped of his scepter .