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TOKYO — On a contentious day at the Summer Games, we learned that the Russian Olympic Committee is employing a descendent of Fyodor Dostoevsky as a publicist, or at the very least an earnest admirer of his florid writing style. Because the statement provoked by American swimmer Ryan Murphy’s comments Friday was some Brothers Karamazov stuff.