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...unnamed rival racing circuit, to debut when team contracts are up for renewal in 2008. Kirch spokesman Hartmut Schulz insists, "Carmakers know they would not have a strong platform with a second series." But an industry insider says the automakers are "deadly serious" and are already trying to lure racing stars to their new league...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Briefing: Dec. 24, 2001 | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

...March, employees in federal office buildings around the country complained to authorities about another group of Israeli students who represented themselves as selling art but seemed uncommonly interested in gaining access to restricted spaces. Government sources also say there is an ongoing counterespionage investigation of certain marketing companies that lure young Israelis to the U.S., and may also infiltrate a few Mossad agents. Leopold counters: "Why would they put 11 very obvious young Israelis together in the middle of rural Ohio? Any suggestion of a connection to a national security threat in this case is absurd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Detained: Israeli Jews In The Dragnet | 12/10/2001 | See Source »

When the audience first meets the main characters, they have long since abandoned the innocence of their youth. Franklin Shepard, (Patrick W. Hosfield ’05), the protagonist, is a successful but unhappy Hollywood producer, who has succumbed to the lure of fame and fortune, abandoning his true love, songwriting. His “old friend” Mary Flynn (Sarahn M. Wheeler ’03) has become a bitter alcoholic, unable to write another best-seller or suffer the A-list crowd that surrounds her. The last member of the central trio is Charley Kringas (Christian...

Author: By Rebecca Cantu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Merrily We Roll Along | 12/7/2001 | See Source »

...economic times since World War II?so what's the point? Why not go out and play?for several days and nights at a time? But running away to Shibuya or other metropolitan party hubs can be anything but a harmless lark. Some young runaways have been murdered. The lure of prostitution, to earn spending money or just to find a warm place to sleep, is hard to avoid considering the vast network of predators trained to sweep young girls off the streets and into the simmering sex industry. Authorities are waking up to the problem, though they're stumped...

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

...That does not give the President an absolute majority, but it does allow him to strike a deal to lure a few maverick KMT or independent politicians rather than engage in tedious and fragile coalition building, leaving the KMT totally out of the government. For the first time since Chiang Kai-shek's army fled to Taiwan, it seems likely politicians advocating unification with the mainland have been sidelined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ties That Won't Bind | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

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