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...platoon moves out toward the objective, a helicopter pad 800 meters away. Duden and the advance fire team climb to the top of a small hill while the rest of the platoon, headed by Lieut. Steve Darnell, pushes through the wooded terrain. All the soldiers creep silently through the underbrush. "It's pretty quiet," whispers Duden. "I just hope Darnell hasn't gotten us lost again...
...Nazi underground, professor of philosophy and ethics, pastor with an unaffectedly common touch. On top of that he is more of an athlete and outdoorsman than any Pope in memory, one who loves to ski in Poland's Tatra Mountains, to kayak or canoe on the Mazurian Lakes, to climb mountains and hike...
Largely as a result of their merchandising razzle-dazzle, the chains are inducing people to buy more books than ever. Retail sales rose to $1.6 billion last year for hard and soft covers combined, and this year they are expected to climb 13%, to $1.8 billion. In terms of unit volume, sales this year will reach about 550 million books. Many of the new customers are former book-club members who find shopping in stores more convenient. As a result, hardcover sales by the clubs fell 4.5% last year, though inflation pushed up dollar volume by 7%, to $253 million...
...family's terrible isolation. Hanley's suggestive style evokes by its very reticence the buried motives and subtle emotions that impose themselves on every human act. "I like to work out in my mind how far a word will go, how deep, or how high it can climb," meditates one of his characters. In Hanley's luminous novels, words travel about as far as they can go in the direction of music...
...There's just a limit to the price prospective homeowners can or are willing to af ford. It is simple economics that house prices can't climb faster than paychecks forever...