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...Scotland, memoirists would be expected to lacerate their enemies and rain garbage on them, and if you raked in $18 million doing it--bingo! more power to you. A wonderful dour tribe, the Scots, and the right to groan and moan is sacred in Scotland. Here we have been duped out of it by the people who gave us aromatherapy and seaweed wraps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crankiness in Decline, Says Old Guy | 8/19/2002 | See Source »

Beach-Bunker Bingo The soldier glared as he came out of the bunker, AK-47 first. His comrades watched from behind mounted machine guns as he leaned down and asked curt questions. Where were we going? How long would we stay? He stood up, squinted at our bags, and finally waved us through, convinced we weren't guerrilla operatives. We were just going to the beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Spot | 4/1/2002 | See Source »

...Boston the diocese admits the remnants of its insurance won't equal the settlements already negotiated, much less new ones. Bernard Cardinal Law, under fire for years of covering up parish priests' sexual misconduct, has vowed not to raid collection plates, bingo nights or the church's ambitious $300 million capital fund-raising effort. Instead he's leaning on wealthy donors to float a special $25 million sex-abuse fund, looking at well-to-do lay fraternities like the Knights of Columbus for loans, and itemizing the properties in the church's rich portfolio that he can sell. Topping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Costs Of Penance | 3/25/2002 | See Source »

...staff inside Afghanistan was able to use rent-a-satellite phones to keep us informed from their three field sites until a few days ago. Then their communication systems jammed, and due to countless other technical and mystical reasons, we lost touch for a few days. Until this noon. BINGO: The phone rings three times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peshawar Diary: Afghanistan on Line One | 11/8/2001 | See Source »

...Western Afghanistan, the IRC ambulance continues transporting innocent civilians injured by the bombing. In the North, more commodities delivered. It's colder. BINGO. Blankets arrive. Expected foodstuff: wheat, beans, sugar and cooking oil on the way. Three mobile clinics (think Meals on Wheels) provide health care to thousands of people, at locations where mothers and children die from preventable diseases every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peshawar Diary: Afghanistan on Line One | 11/8/2001 | See Source »

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