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...This method of time compression is effective in that it provides apersonal connection to history. The events of the past 200 years are not described as affecting faceless numbers of peasants and aristocrats but as affecting individuals with names and, occasionally, faces. At the same time, however, the book does not lose sight of the larger issues, allowing the import of the book to be more general than the isolated story of one family's experiences...
While the author's diverging and converging method of writing provides an effective impression of Koltsovo, the place, as the sum of the motivations and experiences of its people through-out recent history, the style also leads at times to confusion. The narrative requires that thereader remember earlier references to town residents and family members, several of whom have very similar names, and keep straight the times of different events, organizing them into the proper sequence...
...questions, and many of the results, were also reviewed at the request of The Crimson by Associate Professor of Statistics Alan Zaslavsky, who teaches "Statistics 160: Survey Method...
Initial denial was Payanzo's method of coping as well. She had deferred admission to Harvard in the spring of 1994 because she needed a break from the pressure of deadlines and duties. An unexpected pregnancy and the baby she decided to keep were evidently not going to give her that...
...Friday?s hearing was adjourned for the judge to consider Ramirez?s objections to the method of his arrest...