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...Chechen government, called the attack an intentional and planned provocation aimed at derailing elections scheduled for January 27th. "The shooting comes on the heels of a hostage taking incident over the weekend on the Chechen Daghestan border, when 22 Russian Interior Ministry troops were taken," says TIME's Andrew Meier. "It looks as if there is some infighting between Chechen commanders; someone dosn't want the elections to happen." The Red Cross is pointing no fingers, and hasn't said yet which local Chechen boss was responsible for the hospital's security. Earlier this month, in response to threats that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Killing In Chechnya | 12/17/1996 | See Source »

...With reporting by Andrew Meier and Yuri Zarakhovich/Moscow

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TATYANA TROIKA | 11/18/1996 | See Source »

...year study is at the midway point, some of the 100 test subjects already boast of significantly improved health. But researchers are wary of drawing any conclusions before discovering whether the potential benefits outweigh the risks of heightened cholesterol levels and cardiovascular disease. Whatever the results, insists Dr. Diane Meier, associate professor of geriatrics at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, "the view that nothing can be done is inappropriate. There is no place for therapeutic nihilism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aging: OLDER, LONGER | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

...Vatican in particular is exceptionally cautious about granting an event the imprimatur of the church. "Nobody is more demanding than the Roman authorities when it comes to miracles," notes Father John Meier, Bible professor at Catholic University of America in Washington, whose new book, A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume II (Doubleday; $35), represents the latest scholarly attempt to meld science and faith. Too often over the centuries, Meier admits, the Catholic Church was taken in by charlatans. When reports spread of statues weeping or crosses bleeding or Jesus appearing on a tortilla, the church is often slow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MESSAGE OF MIRACLES | 4/10/1995 | See Source »

...given how hard it is to start just one small charter school, how will it be possible to remake the entire system? In New York City, Meier hopes to show the way by building a new citywide support system for independent public schools. "We want to create a system that cherishes their idiosyncratic qualities, that encourages them to be entrepreneurial and creative and in which we invent some new forms of accountability." Without it, she fears, charter schools will be nothing more than "cute exceptions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EDUCATION: A Class of Their Own | 10/31/1994 | See Source »

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