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...with the only likely suspense of the next three weeks centering on whether one of the three remaining Kucha-ites can crack the Ogakor alliance, it would have behooved CBS to treat viewers to every available insight into the minds of not only Rodger, Elisabeth and Nick but the vulnerable Jerri and the swing vote Colby. At 99 hours a week, there had to have been more of that than what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wrong Time to Pull a Bait-and-Switch | 3/21/2001 | See Source »

...Communist Party, for its part, seems to know that persecuting religions can actually make them more alluring. The Freedom House documents, which purport to be the party's strategies for suppressing evangelical Christianity, makes this observation: "The numbers grow slowly if we have a relaxed policy, and if we crack down harder, it grows faster." Even the party is realizing it's difficult to beat anyone fighting a holy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sins of the Father | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

Harvard will look to several skaters to crack the Cornell defense. Sophomore Dominic Moore leads the balanced attack with 14 goals and 27 assists this season...

Author: By Elijah M. Alper, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Hockey Meets Cornell in Lake Placid | 3/16/2001 | See Source »

...fallow, its 70 head of cattle close to worthless. He can't find a buyer for the ancestral farm, which he is now desperate to sell. An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease has turned the verdant countryside into a gruesome field of slaughter. The prevailing sound is the crack of pistol shots felling livestock. Farms appear barren save for the smoldering pyres on which hundreds of perfectly healthy animals were incinerated last week. So far McInnes' herd has avoided infection, which means he still has a chance to unload the farm and "pack up and leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slaughterhouse | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...national force's paramilitary troops. Despite the matte black M-16s they carry, the teenagers who make up the rank and file of the Brimob, as Indonesians call it, have a serious inferiority complex. In their gray and chocolate-colored uniforms, they resemble private security guards more than crack troops, something they are painfully conscious of, especially when they meet up with the real army. And when the trucks finally arrived at the gates of the port 3 km away, they encountered soldiers from Jakarta's elite Kostrad rapid deployment unit, recognizable by their smart green berets and camouflage uniforms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Darkest Season | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

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