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BYLINE: ERIN NEFF, REVIEW-JOURNAL
First lady Laura Bush smiled broadly after taking a seat in Mary Ziegler's English class at the Advanced Technologies Academy on Thursday when she heard the students rattling off with ease the Russian names and, more importantly, motivations of characters in "Crime and Punishment."
Later she told the 22 students that Fyodor Dostoevsky is her favorite author, his "Brothers Karamazov" is her favorite novel and that she was lucky enough to visit his home during an official trip to Russia last year.
But Bush wasn't here just to talk literature, or to tout a $500 million job training program her husband proposed last month. She was here, she said during a news conference, because "Nevada is very…