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Father was used to being needed by everyone, to being constantly involved. Suddenly, the Great Cause had disappeared, and everything came crashing down. A man in this situation is like an ant when some malicious hand suddenly puts an insurmountable twig in its path. Suddenly, this businesslike, industrious creature begins to rush aimlessly in all directions. It's hard enough to start a new life when you're young and the years stretch endlessly before you. It's a hundred times harder when the sun is setting on your old age. Just yesterday Father had been making decisions...
...went down the path. Father was sitting on the bench, watching the sun go down. His dog Arbat was lying beside him. Father looked tired, his face seemed grayer and older. He asked, "Do you know already? Did Mama tell you?" I nodded. "Scoundrels! I told them what I think of them. Perhaps I went too far, but it serves them right. They thought I would crawl on my belly in front of them...
...billion and $6 billion annually, depending on who is counting. "We have conservatives too," explains the Kremlin's Deputy Foreign Minister, Viktor Komplektov. "There is so much else to push that it is simply easier to avoid a fight with those who idolize Fidel." With Gorbachev thus constrained, the path to perestroika in Havana runs through Washington. "Talk to the Cubans," Gorbachev has told Bush. "Something can be worked out. Castro can be a good partner, if only you give him the chance...
...most reviewers were ecstatic. One L went on to sell some 40,000 copies in hardback and to become an underground, pass-along classic among law students. Turow confesses himself thrilled by "my first taste of literary success," but he was not swayed from the new path he had chosen. "I gave no thought," he says, with heavy emphasis, "to not practicing...
Bush is a cautious politician dedicated largely to making relatively minor adjustments in the status quo. In his Inaugural Address he asserted that "there are times when the future seems thick as a fog; you sit and wait, hoping the mist will lift and reveal the right path." It is impossible to imagine Gorbachev uttering a sentence like that. He sees himself as a revolutionary shatterer of the status quo who would insist on pushing ahead through...