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...showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists.” The old, cold illusion of London, of its foreboding palaces and city estates and dispassionate people gives way to a mess of place names, curious tunnels, galleries of exciting posters for plays and films, tired faces of all colors speaking over three hundred languages...

Author: By Alexander L. Pasternack, | Title: London Lanes | 6/25/2004 | See Source »

...experts from three nations are busy cleaning up the mess. Khan's neighbor was more than just a dirty factory. Police say it was one of the world's biggest drug labs, run by a criminal enterprise with tentacles stretching from China to the South Pacific. The crystal methamphetamine, or ice, being cooked inside the warehouse was destined, says Fiji police commissioner Andrew Hughes, for the U.S., Australia, New Zealand and Europe. The cops who swooped on the building June 9?finding 5 kg of the glassy drug and enough chemicals to make a ton of it?came from Fiji...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ice: From Gang to Bust | 6/21/2004 | See Source »

...state of Texas has a lot of money invested in the slogan, and we definitely want people to know it's a litter-prevention message. It's not a macho message." DORIS HOWDESHELL, director of the travel division at the Texas Transportation Department, on the slogan "Don't mess with Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: Jun. 21, 2004 | 6/21/2004 | See Source »

...Governor Pat Brown was an amiably conventional liberal, who ran on his amiably conventional record. Reagan spotted and exploited a new issue: middle-class discontent over disturbances at the University of California and over the disturbances of the 1960s in general. He vowed to "clean up the mess at Berkeley." He won by a margin of almost 1 million votes out of 6.5 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The All-American President: Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004) | 6/14/2004 | See Source »

...squash beat. I knew the team, and the sport was small enough to make me feel safe covering it. The strangest thing wasn’t that I devoted my life to squash; it was the fact that the whole time I covered it, I was terrified I would mess up. So why was I a sportswriter if I was scared of exposing some horrible inadequacy of mine...

Author: By Brenda Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Love It Or Leeve It: Retracing the Path to Sportswriting | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

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