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Although the collegiate Drury immediately showed the skill which made him a second-round draft pick of the Calgary Flames in 1989--netting 22 points his freshman year--Mallgrave and Flomen-hoft took longer to raise their play to its high-school heights...
With little access to the battlefield, reporters had to depend on the daily briefings in Riyadh and Washington for news. Those were handled with extraordinary skill. The briefings were filled with facts and figures (number of missions flown, Scuds fired), and the men who conducted them were cooperative, usually candid and, when it came to estimates of enemy damage, very cautious. The goal was to avoid excessive optimism and reduce expectations...
Night Ride Home is Mitchell's first album in almost three years, her best in 10. It's easy to like and hard to forget, and it shows that Mitchell -- for all her restless musical experimentation -- has an undiminished skill in navigating some of the deeper estuaries of the mainstream. The album summons fond memories of Mitchell's formative years -- the times of Woodstock and Court and Spark -- but it's not an exercise in nostalgia...
...That skill undoubtedly helped him during his hardscrabble rise through Sverdlovsk's construction industry in the 1950s. His relentless drive against pilfering and wage padding angered some fellow workers but eventually attracted the attention of Communist Party recruiters. Yeltsin became an ordinary member in 1961, at the age of 30, and did not join the party hierarchy full time until seven years later...
Bourneman has clearly investigated the lifestyles of East Germans in depth and conveys this information with skill. After the Wall is not a complex, murky book about the evils of communism and its dark duplicity. Instead the author presents poignant episodes from the lives of people who experienced and endured East German society. The reader needs no German history to understand the compelling story which unfolds here...