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...first blush, this assertion seems to drop conventional wisdom on its head. Everyone knows that the novel is literature's great grab bag, shapeless enough to accommodate nearly everything a writer wants to cram into it. Short stories allow little wasted motion. But Narayan, 78, turns out to be a perfectly accurate commentator on his own methods. Under the Banyan Tree and Other Stories, while shorter than most novels, is a riotous mosaic of small details in which nothing, finally, seems irrelevant...
Walker was allegedly following KGB instructions at the time of his arrest. According to testimony at Arthur Walker's trial, FBI agents learned from telephone wiretaps that John was going to make a drop last May 19. They trailed his van by car and helicopter as it wound through the back roads of Maryland, eventually stopping several times at the same remote spot. When Walker finally left the vicinity, agents tramped through the woods, kicking smelly garbage bags, until they came across what one called "a classic type of Soviet drop site." It was a log between two trees marked...
Only when the players walked out did both sides compromise. The players agreed to raise the eligibility requirement for arbitration for new players from two to three years. The owners, for their part, agreed to drop the salary-cap proposal. On the owners' contribution to the players' pension fund, the two sides compromised at an average of $32.6 million a year for the next five years. The early reading was that the players on balance had prevailed, though in fact they mostly held on to earlier gains...
...obliteration are over, and the ghostly figures of vaporized corpses that were stenciled on the sidewalks of scores of American cities have already begun to fade. What remains is a question, the same one that has gnawed at us from the first: Did the U.S. really have to drop the atomic bomb...
...felt they were missing their share of the company's bounty. The firm last year had profits of $2.4 billion, and is expected this week to announce hefty third-quarter earnings. Said Reno Pietrantoni, 53, a millwright who has worked 26 years for Chrysler: "The bonus is really a drop in the bucket compared to what we lost over the last five years." By one estimate, Chrysler workers gave more than $15,000 each in wage concessions...