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Since van de Wetering lives in Maine permanently, he could have set his story during a summer tourist season or the fiery glories of autumn. Instead he takes the harder route: bare, muted landscapes filled with ravens, seals and deer. He is aware of the violence in the town and casual cruelty of the hunters. But the book's strongest writing is about the satisfactions of surviving a hard winter: wooden stoves, good drink, a safe journey home made in a blizzard. These are worth more than a tricky plot. Van de Wetering is an amateur who is good...
...known over the last 26 years of fighting with the wild hordes of hunters that descend on us farmers each autumn that their real reason for shooting at the house and livestock at all hours, and threatening to burn me out if I tell them to get off my property, was to get away from their wives-I would have told them to go the hell home and file for a divorce...
...unavailable because the 746-mile pipeline that carries it from Iran's Ahwaz field to Soviet ports on the Caspian Sea has been out of service since the field was shut down by Iranian strikers last autumn. The Soviets, who built the line in 1970, pay Iran more than $250 million annually for some 10 billion cubic meters of gas, which they distribute through branch lines to the whole of the Transcaucasus. Like their American counterparts, Soviet officials seemed at first to assume that the disruption of deliveries would be only brief, and little was done to arrange...
...about 1% of what his harvest will eventually be worth, $6 per lb., but that is five or six times as profitable as growing coffee, corn or cotton. Despite the fact that the government has begun cracking down (it has burned more than 2,000 tons of marijuana since autumn), it is not inclined to be too harsh on the farmers. Says José Miguel Garavito, the swashbuckling operations officer of the Attorney General's antidrug unit: "It is hard to blame a farmer who is growing corn and earning a few pesos for switching when he seen his neighbors working...
...always been an outsize figure on autumn afternoons, fiercely aggressive, his chin thrust forward in defiance. He wanted to win. He wanted to win, in the end, more than anything, and it was the flaw that ruined him. The denouement came on a Friday night in a meaningless bowl game. Coach Wayne Woodrow Hayes, 65, the autocrat of Ohio State football for 28 years, was fired after assaulting an opposing player. Sadly, the incident that ended his remarkable career in disgrace surprised virtually no one who was familiar with Woody. "Hayes had become a caricature of himself," said Max Brown...