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...Clarke 20 footer through a maze of players. Harvard continued to press in the Yale zone, but some fine Yale goaltending kept the Crimson off the board. Yale finally tallied at 16:05 on a 2-on-1 break, with Harvard goalie Larry Ward not having a chance...
...superb earlier novels (The First Cir cle, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Cancer Ward) were fiction alized reflections of that experience. In the first two parts of Gulag, however, he set out to document the entire range of horrors inflicted upon the Soviet people from 1918 to 1956. A 260,000-word mosaic, composed of personal reminiscences, interviews with survivors, and documents, Gulag lays out the intricate patterns of terror...
...stopped at one of the tiny tiendas or stores clustered in one stretch of the main street. There was really very little to choose from--some hard candy, oranges and bananas, a tasteless variety of popped corn, cocoa leaves to ward off the winter cold, some tins of canned fish. All of the food had to be bused in from Cochabamba, down in the valley, and hence was sparse and expensive. I decided to buy some peanuts. Not that I was very hungry; rather, I hoped to use them as a sort of bribe to entice people to talk...
...their private lives: no one is interested in joining the Peace Corps now, and Ralph Nader is said to have trouble finding help. Students seem to be joining a lemming-like rush to law school or medical school, hoping to emerge eventually with a bright badge of professionalism to ward off the encroachments of a colder world...
...Senator Edward Kennedy confesses that he has always been "terribly squeamish" about illness. But, determined that son Teddy will have tender care, he plans to take on a nurse's role. The boy will need chemotherapeutic injections for a time to ward off a recurrence of the cancer that necessitated amputation of his leg last November. Doctors suggested that a nurse visit the Kennedy home, but the Senator demurred. Instead, he is learning to wield the needle himself so that he can give the painful and unsettling treatments and help allay the boy's fears...