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...used to strip Soviet bookshops of a new novel by Vasili Aksyonov as if they were stocking up on candles before a storm. A first printing of 100,000 copies would vanish from the stores within 48 hours, and any magazine containing an Aksyonov short story, like his celebrated Halfway to the Moon, could count on the immediate sellout of a 2 million-copy press run. No other prose writer of the post-Stalin generation commanded such an impassioned following; no other offered a more radical departure from the standard Socialist Realist fare. His nonconformity came naturally. Aksyonov had been...
...Halfway into the second quarter, Allard guided the Crimson deep into Brown territory before his offense stalled. Villanueva's 44-yard field goal attempt, his longest of the season, was good and Harvard was up 13-0 with 59 seconds left before the half...
...Halfway through the regular season's final fortnight, the 10-2-2 Crimson has been far more successful winning games than watching scoreboards. Harvard has claimed the first two of its final four contests, but victories by Princeton and the University of Massachusetts have prevented the stickwomen from gaining ground in either the Ivy race or their quest for a berth in the NCAA Championship tournament...
...fine with the nations it is supposed to protect as long as the R.D.F. remains out of sight, but not out of mind. When the U.S. tries to mount training exercises in the area, it encounters political and diplomatic obstacles almost as daunting as the logistical challenge of airlifting halfway around the world the Seventh Marine Amphibious Brigade, which is stationed at Twenty-nine Palms, Calif...
...firm is either in or out of South Africa, corporations are often tied to the sprawling weapons industry only indirectly, and those ties are often only a minute part of its overall operations. Partial divestiture, for instance, might well prove sensible, while it would be hard to explain a halfway step in the more clear-cut South Africa case...