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SMILEY'S PEOPLE by John le Carré; Knopf; 374pages...
...London house lives George Smiley, Master Spy (ret.). Resolutely out of style, fat as the Michelin tire man, he has long been cuckolded by his wife and betrayed by close associates. It is tune the old cold warrior hung up his spites. Not Smiley. Once more, Author John le Carré trots him out in a flawed and misnamed adventure: Smiley's People is actually about the people's Smiley. All of his endearing characteristics, so well catalogued in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and The Honourable Schoolboy, are herein amplified. Now heading toward 70, the man retains...
...Crimson skaters ended the game with 49 shots on goal. Carr, Fitzgerald, and Dan Janis led the team with two goals each...
...second period opened very much like the first, as Harvard's Tom Carr slapped in his second goal of the night at 0:57. The Crimson continued its control, finishing the period with a 7-4 lead...
...empire on which the sun never set, into a ramshackle and absurd commonwealth in which it never rises. Whereas our grand fathers found their heroes in empire builders celebrated by Rudyard Kipling, we have had to make do with expertise in espionage celebrated by Ian Fleming and Le Carr...