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...Microsoft is expected to introduce a patch soon, available to all users through Windows Automatic Update. However, the company will not confirm whether or not the patch will be available by January 10, the date of the next scheduled Windows update. "We're investigating the issue aggressively," Mike Reavey, operations manager for Microsoft's Security Response Center, told TIME. Reavey stressed the need to test the safety patch thoroughly before uploading it to users...
Among the converted is Margaret Reavey, 25, a public housing office receptionist in Gateshead, on the northeast coast, who became a Marxist in sympathy for the miners' strike that helped topple the Conservative government of Prime Minister Edward Heath in 1974. "You don't go to bed at night and wake up a Marxist," explains Reavey. "It comes through experience. I disliked what Heath and the Tories stood...
...LAST SUMMER (159 pp.)-Boris Pasternak, translated by George Reavey -Avon (paperbound...
Writer George Reavey is a man who can write placidly about a national literature in chains. "Russian society," he writes, "has not lost the motive power of belief, and where belief is, there a measure of intolerance is bound to thrive." Even the decree that Russian detective and adventure fiction must fall into line "is understandable in so far as this sort of fiction will be largely read by the youth of the country and the state has an immediate interest in the shaping of the outlook of the younger generation...
Rations for the Regulated. George Reavey, 40, was born in Russia of British parents, educated in England and graduated from Cambridge University. He lived in Russia from 1912 to 1918, returned there in 1942 to spend the next three years as deputy press attache at the British Embassy. Soviet Literature Today is irritatingly naive and uncritical. But it is important for what it reveals about the grisly role of the writer in a totalitarian state...