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Thus, the title becomes equally appropriate as an umbrella for Anna's story, its consequences on her contemporaries, and the novel's preoccupation with the agrarian defection from that society of (Tolstoy's stand-in) Levin.
The New York Times ' top non-local story is Act II of its lead yesterday about an ultra-religious party's possible defection from Israel's coalition government.
"The people who are honoring the six-year term limit are the ones with the most revolutionary zeal, and they're the ones that are leaving," he recently told the Arizona Republic , explaining his defection.
As often happens in campaigns, Brown suffered an embarrassing defection last month, when writer Walter Kirn quit and told the press he had been saddled with "celebrity profile assignments."
Playing down his defection, the New China News Agency said that he "did not mean to betray the State, the nation, the monastery, or the leadership."