"Raviv and Avi, and--my favorite--a Russian Jew named Grisha. (" 'Russian Jew' contradiction in terms," he explained, in a lavish plume of menthol smoke. "To Russian mind anyway. Since 'Jew' to antisemite mind is not the same as true Russian--Russia is notorious of this fact.") Grisha had been born in Sevastopol, which he claimed to remember ("black water,"