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...Alan Furst remembers exactly when he first looked on evil. In Russia, in 1983. A visiting journalist, he saw it reflected in the tired eyes of a middle-aged woman on a Moscow bus; in the frightened obedience of a man when a Soviet policeman shook his finger at the man; in a jab in the back when he offended a Yalta ferry purser. Says Furst, who talks with the same cinematic vigor that fills his six fine spy novels: "I thought, I'll pay him back when I get to the typewriter...
...evil that Furst, 60, writes about so passionately is the arrogance of power exercised at the expense of ordinary men. Once he saw a police state, he was angry for the rest of his life. "I hate what people do to people," he says. "I have no armor against it. It's always fresh to me. I can't stand it." That anger has given birth to five novels that attracted a cult following, but the recently published Kingdom of Shadows (Random House; 239 pages; $24.95) is provoking mainstream attention...
...Furst transmuted his political horrors to the bleak years from 1938 to 1942 when Europe was in extremis. The totalitarianism his reluctant heroes combat is Nazism, but his books are less about Hitler than all the Hitlers: his belief that the suffering was not caused just by one man, but by the lust for power of all the predators out there. "And if you think they're dead," Furst adds, "take a look at Yugoslavia. They're still out there, alive and well...
...Harvard two-mile relay, ranked just eighth on the league performance lists, stepped up to finish fourth in 9:09.95--a 20-second improvement over the season best. The team was made of sophomore Ashley Furst, junior Sam Piper, sophomore Leeann Hymas and senior Mary Unsworth...
Schutte placed fourth in the 200, and put together her usual impressive performance in the 400. Cornell and Brown's best were no match for her as she won easily with a season-best mark of 56.17 seconds. Shanklin finished fourth in the event. Furst placed fourth in the 800-meter run to round out the Harvard scoring on the track...