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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...years ago, a new magazine that says “H Bomb” in huge, suburban letters was door-dropped at Harvard. Katharina Cieplak-von Baldegg ’06 co-founded the magazine, which proceded to create a national stir and media blitz...

Author: By Alexander B. Fabry, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Katharina Cieplak-von Baldegg '06 | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

...looking into possible links between Monday night's mayhem and two other major terrorist attacks on the Sinai Peninsula's Red Sea coast in the past 18 months. Fifteen Egyptians are currently on trial for the October 2004 attack on a hotel in Taba that killed 34 and a blitz last July in Sharm El Sheikh, the Sinai's premier resort, that left at least 64 dead. Egyptian officials believe that the accused operated an Islamic extremist cell in the Sinai, calling itself Tawheed and Jihad and relying on sympathetic local Bedouin for logistical support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shattering the "Peace and Party" Mood in Dahab | 4/25/2006 | See Source »

Overall, the death of the October ad blitz should make for a more meaningful campaign. "All of this allows politicians to come to voters in ways that are more germane to their lives," says the NDN's Rosenberg. "They'll need to raise less money to reach them, and they'll pay more attention when they do. It's great for democracy." Even if it's bad for Wheel of Fortune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaigns: An Eye On The White House And An Eye On You | 3/12/2006 | See Source »

...great clearing house of ideas in Australia,' he was right." The essential Howard is a scrapper and proselytizer with a thick skin. In the House of Representatives this year, he and his ministers have been pounded during Question Time, the P.M. mostly impassive before Labor's inquisitorial blitz about the scandal of AWB Ltd. and the U.N.'s Oil-for-Food program. And during those first two sitting weeks, when the P.M. had heard enough, arms and body would spring up - "Mr. Speaker!" - as he spat taunts across the chamber - "Mr. Speaker!" - hand thumping the dispatch box in a climax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leader of the Pack | 2/27/2006 | See Source »

...linked to a special Health Ministry squad, to carry out a rapid-fire sweep of five residences where Austrians were staying in Pragelato Plan and Cesana San Sicario, the two hamlets hosting the cross-country and biathlon events. The Saturday-night raid was a first-ever antidoping police blitz at an Olympics, and the i.o.c. came along. So while the police scoured the houses and the athletes for any evidence of doping substances or equipment, Olympic officials demanded that 10 Austrian athletes give urine samples. It was well after midnight when the commotion had cleared. Some athletes complained that guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Below-Zero Tolerance | 2/25/2006 | See Source »

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