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...frustrated at the poor instruction her daughter Elisa, now nine, was receiving in Chicago's public schools. "Her papers came home filled with the teacher's flagrant errors," she says. "How do you tell your child that contrary to what the teacher says, pin and pen are not homonyms...
...memoir is The Calf Kept Butting the Oak. The English equivalent of this Russian proverbial saying is "beating one's head against a stone wall." Russia is a land of proverbs. One that could apply to all of Solzhenitsyn's writings: "What has been written with a pen cannot be hacked away with an ax " - Patricia Blake
...that they became as great a danger to the U.S. as to the Soviet Union. But in a world where the KGB has grown increasingly aggressive, it is at least worth considering how far is too far. Angleton and Harvey deserve to be judged by what did not hap pen, by what the Soviets were unable to achieve while they had the watch. Now that they are gone and American counter-intelligence is much reduced, one can only hope that the next book written on the subject can limn as satisfactory a record...
More than ten Harvard Square business donated prizes for the race, including 17 trophies, 15 pairs of running shoes, a case of Heineken beer, a gold pen set, and a weekend for two at the Colonnade Hotel in Boston
Marvy is a substantial, pink-faced man with a sandy mustache and a booming voice. He has three Dutch Masters cigars and a ballpoint pen in the breastpocket of his suit. But it isn't hard to change the ballpoint to a fountain pen, erase a few facial lines and see him as a 25-year-old self-employed salesman, striding into a two-chair barber shop in some one-horse Minnesota town. "Keep up with the times," he would say, unpacking samples of Tiger Root and Pinaud's Lilac Vegetal. "Look to the future. Have a cigar...