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...Mathias Rust's Red Square landing. Readers sometimes buy the paper, which is primarily intended for foreigners, for ten to 20 times the official cost of 10 kopecks (16 cents). Ogonyok, which two years ago was largely unread, now sells out all 1.5 million issues every week. Under the editorship of Vitaly Korotich, the magazine has published a 1939 testament from an exiled Bolshevik denouncing Stalin as "the real enemy of the nation, and the organizer of famine and fake trials." It also sent a young reporter to Afghanistan to write candid accounts of the increasingly unpopular...
...public. While he and his wife attempt to settle down so that he can write, his neighbors try to involve him in their fascist organization, offering him a ministry when the planned revolution is complete. Soon the socialists begin also to woo Somers, with the enticement of editorship of a socialist newspaper. His inner struggle to choose between the two provides Kangaroo with dramatic intensity...
...made visits each spring and friends among Czech artists. This experience had literary consequences: The Prague Orgy, a novella recounting Nathan Zuckerman's misadventures in that city, included as the coda for the trilogy published as Zuckerman Bound (1985); and Roth's editorship of a series, "Writers from the Other Europe," which has given Eastern European writers exposure in the West. Roth's access to Prague ended in the mid-'70s, when his visa was not renewed. He had been tailed and questioned there, as had those who associated with him. "After I left one time," he recalls, "the authorities...
Citing fears that the editorship would be too great a drain on his scholarly research, Laurence S. Tribe '62, Tyler professor of constitutional law, said he would no longer edit the journal which he had proposed as an alternative to the current student-edited Harvard Law Review...
Tribe originally said that the journal would publish articles which student editors often overlook. When he accepted the editorship in December, Tribe said that these pieces fall "somewhere in between the elaborate scholarly production and the breezy think-piece...