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Presidential homes are quiet stops, far away from the clang of power. They speak volumes with their family artifacts and life patterns etched in furniture, stairways and backyards. New paint sometimes glamorizes the houses too much. The home had not been "quite so shiny" when he lived in it, Reagan confessed. In the end, the memories, evoked by a fragment of wallpaper or a warm corner in the kitchen, are the stuff of such museums...
...Author Arthur Koestler little is definitely known. But he has written the most exciting novel of the season. The book begins with the clang of a cell door closing in a GPU prison. It ends with a shot in the back of the head in a murky passageway of the prison cellar. It moves with the speed, directness, precision and some of the impact of a bullet. More plausibly than any other book yet written, fiction or nonfiction, it gives the answer to one of history's great riddles: Why do Russians confess...
...most visible aspect of the computer revolution, the video game, is its least significant. But even if the buzz and clang of the arcades is largely a teen-age fad, doomed to go the way of Rubik's Cube and the Hula Hoop, it is nonetheless a remarkable phenomenon. About 20 corporations are selling some 250 different game cassettes for roughly $2 billion this year. According to some estimates, more han half of all the personal computers bought for home use are devoted mainly to games...
Harvard's fans have responded in kind to the team's success, first filling the home stands, then flocking to the Boston Garden this weekend. The deafening clang of "the gong" and the traditional cheers that rise from the student section at Bright are both unmitigated support for the Crimson and pure nightmare for the opponents unfortunate enough to visit Cambridge...
Before the massacre, Sabra and Shatila were hives of cottage industry. The clang of metal against metal still rings from some of the small automobile repair shops, but behind the din there is a kind of lethargy. Women and children abound, but there are few males of working age. Many of the men were killed in the massacre. The male Palestinian fighters who survived left the country in the evacuation following the Beirut siege. Since then, the Lebanese army and security forces have conducted roundups of suspected P.L.O. members, criminals and others believed to be in Lebanon illegally. The roundups...