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...council will hold a special meeting today to confirm McKean and Milikowsky’s appointments. It will require a majority vote of the council to approve each candidate...

Author: By Alexander B. Ginsberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wage Committee Reps Picked | 5/16/2001 | See Source »

...Officially the Japanese government that stopped and detained him wouldn't even confirm the identity of the man traveling as Pang Xiong, but privately everyone involved left little doubt about who he really was. Pyongyang was keeping mum on the affair, although a close contact of the regime in Tokyo insisted it "is nonsense that Kim Jong Nam would come to Japan." Immigration authorities, tipped off by British intelligence sources, stopped him at passport control and whisked him to a detention center at the airport last Tuesday. He quickly admitted to authorities that he was in fact the man nicknamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Was That Stranger? | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

...next thing I notice is that something has changed. I don't know what it is right away, but somewhere off in the fog a signal is coming through that there has been a development on the pain front. The early reports are confirmed, and I get a solid telex with the words, "sharp drop in pain level in legs and upper body, believe hill to be leveling out." My compromised IQ takes some time with this, and after a moment concludes that this development merits investigation. I take a look at some of the other readings coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fool on the Hill | 5/10/2001 | See Source »

...let’s just allow this article to confirm the gross amount of demand for cable access...

Author: By Justin D. Gest, | Title: Hook Me Up | 5/3/2001 | See Source »

...immigrant families in Berlin's Kreuzberg district, most of whom were of Turkish origin, Ucar found that 63% of the children spoke little or no German and thus "didn't meet the linguistic requirements for primary school." Similar research from other regions and for other age groups, Ucar adds, confirm his finding: "The situation is not good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Losers in the Language Gap | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

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