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...young age, Tintin kindled my fascination with writing, foreign affairs and travel. The eponymous hero of Herge's series is a young newspaper journalist who travels about the world solving one scandalous affair after another (and manages to spend surprisingly zero time at the office). Opium smuggling in the Orient, counterfeiting schemes in Scotland and underwater treasuring hunting pose no problem for the resourceful Tintin. With the aid of Captain Haddock and pet dog Snowy, Tintin makes short work of the thugs and brings the ringleaders to justice...

Author: By Joshua Derman, | Title: Endpaper: Tintin | 5/6/1999 | See Source »

...city of Jerusalem may end up paying a heavy price for Benjamin Netanyahu's election campaign. That's what the hawkish Israeli prime minister is being accused of in the wake of his decision to close Orient House, the Palestinian Authority's unofficial headquarters in the city. Israeli opposition leaders charged on Friday that Netanyahu made the move knowing that likely Palestinian unrest in the heart of Jerusalem would work for him on the eve of Israel's election. "This may have created a very dangerous situation, but it's politically expedient for Netanyahu," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Netanyahu Stirs the Pot in Jerusalem | 4/23/1999 | See Source »

...Netanyahu announced Thursday that Israel would close down Orient House, saying meetings there between a Palestinian Authority official and European diplomats violated Israel's sovereignty. But Netanyahu's crackdown presents a complex challenge for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. "A wave of protests on this issue would give Arafat an opportunity to rally his own supporters, who've had to accept some backing down over the promise to declare a Palestinian state on May 4," says Beyer. On the other hand, the reason for Arafat's soft-pedaling the statehood issue has been a desire to avoid stampeding Israeli voters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Netanyahu Stirs the Pot in Jerusalem | 4/23/1999 | See Source »

...Park, "and there are many ways of looking at associations." Still, many scientists have come to the conclusion that there is a genetic link to homosexuality, but they concede this may not necessarily be true in all cases. And so for those looking to the certainty of science to orient their politics on gay issues, the only given from the latest ambiguity is this: more passionate debate from both sides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gay-Gene Theory Gets a Slap in the Face | 4/23/1999 | See Source »

...said the large introductory classes in mathematics and laboratory science concentrations sometimes make it difficult for students to orient themselves without help from peers...

Author: By Tara L. Colon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: With a little help from your friends... | 3/4/1999 | See Source »

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