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...HALFWAY HOME by Paul Monette...
...Paul Monette is one of them. Three years ago he earned lavish praise for Borrowed Time, an unflinching memoir about his lover's death from that horrific disease. Last year he wrote Afterlife, the fictional story of three AIDS widowers. Now Monette is back with a new novel, Halfway Home, in which AIDS again plays a significant role. This time, however, his narrative is driven not by the experiences of those who are defeated by the disease but by those who defiantly make a life for themselves in spite...
...negotiations. Don't count him out yet. While he will own less at the end of these negotiations, he will also owe less, and the effect on his net worth remains to be seen. After filling an inside straight in the first round of talks, he's already halfway out of the hole...
...injury to expert defender Mike Kramer halfway through the second frame did not aid the Crimson either. After being nailed in the windpipe while fighting for the ball in front of the Crimson cage, Kramer was taken directly to the hospital...
Gorbachev seems unable to realize that there is no halfway house between a command system and a free market, and that there can be no successful private enterprise without private ownership. He is unable to cut the umbilical cord to the Marxist-Leninist philosophy that has nurtured him all his life...