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"Now I can proceed to write my Gov paper," I said to myself. I reached into my desk to take out a few sheets of typing paper. But scattered across the top of the ream of Berkshire Bond was an unshuffled, disordered deck of cards.
That was 50 years ago. Since then the true story has been told only in fragmentary fashion, as the facts filtered through decades of unrelenting Soviet denial. Fittingly, another poet, Robert Conquest, has now come forward to write The Harvest of Sorrow, the first major scholarly book on the horrors...
The month-long campaign was marred by scattered acts of violence. Guerrillas of the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), the fanatical Maoist revolutionary group that has terrorized the countryside since 1980, shot and killed an A.P.R.A. candidate for city council in Huancayo, 122 miles east of Lima. To the southeast, near...
PHILIP'S FLOUNDERING attempts to come to grips with his past, to achieve a sense of well-being and "self-containment," drive the book forward. The route he travels is scattered with daunting problems and wonderful characters, both of which Leavitt treats with sympathy and skill. Jerene, Eliot's roommate...
In the bowels of the exchange, and scattered around the remainder of New York City and its environs, are the banks of IBM and Tandem computers that run both the Big Board's SuperDot (for designated order turnaround) system and the equivalent operation for the American Exchange, which is known...