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Stalin's urgency to kill Trotsky revolves around a secret that Stalin fears Trotsky is near to discovering. The reader knows, of course, that the assassin's ice ax will end up, on schedule, embedded in Trotsky's skull. The suspense is in waiting to learn Stalin's unpardonable sin--which turns out to be, historically, an interesting sin indeed...
...ensure that sufficient attention is given to racial and ethnic diversity, however, since the 1970s, the committee on admissions often employed an additional reader, explains Lewis, "to help the committee be sure that each candidate's particular circumstances (especially connected to ethnicity or culture) did not obscure the excellence of the case...
This year brought an end to the role of that special "fourth" reader for minority applications. Fitzsimmons and Lewis agree that awareness at Harvard and in the rest of the nation have changed sufficiently that such an additional reader is no longer necessary...
...after Great Adventure, the duo went to the beach, to the boardwalk--to a palm reader. She didn't tell Perez anything interesting, but Martin got an earful. In the next month, he was fated to meet his true love, the woman with whom he would spend his life...
...nursing him, is struggling instead with one of the modern age's versions of warfare, a cobbled together, dysfunctional family. Nick moves between his grandfather's past and his own unsettled present wondering about survival. But Barker's faith in the power of redemption lets her, and the reader, down: the hasty if elegiac conclusion promises a peace that is too easily...