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...Among four people held for questioning was Denis Donaldson, the Sinn Fein official who runs the office at Stormont. The searches were prompted by a theft that occured just a few hundred meters from Sinn Fein's Stormont office, in a dull brick building that houses the last remaining outpost of the British central government in Northern Ireland, which still presides over the Ulster's policing and justice system. In September 2001, a messenger working there was caught photocopying files. He was fired, but police began a year-long investigation that led it to conclude the I.R.A. was stealing politically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Spying Game | 10/6/2002 | See Source »

...begins and hotels from Menton to Théoule proclaim they are complet (full). The history of Nice, affectionately charted by Robert Kanigel in High Season in Nice (Little, Brown; 309 pages), effectively mirrors the history of tourism. From small beginnings as a Greek fishing village and Roman frontier outpost, the town developed slowly until the late 18th century, when the continent, for a change, was at peace and wealthy Europeans started to travel in search of different art, culture - and weather. The following century saw Nice inundated with French, English and Russian aristocrats. In La Belle Epoque Nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Nice for Too Many | 8/25/2002 | See Source »

...Singh Rana, a Hindu, serves as headman of Ajanwa, a remote village in eastern Gujarat. When Muslims were attacked in his area in March, he ran to the local police outpost. They refused to help. One constable asked why Rana was bothering, expressing his personal opinion that "the Muslims deserve to die like dogs." Rana called a local legislator who said paramilitary troops would be sent. But by then, 11 Muslims had been killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Walking Scared in India | 7/29/2002 | See Source »

...fiddling away on battered violins. By the time the concert got under way they had already been warming up for an hour and soon had the crowd of Londoners (Londoners!) dancing in the pews. A corner of Tony Blair's old borough was transformed, momentarily, into a raucous outpost of Eastern Europe. And so it goes with Taraf de Haïdouks, or "band of brigands," a Romanian gypsy group that has won praise from the late Yehudi Menuhin, modeled clothes for Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto and played Johnny Depp's Viper Club in L.A. Taraf's CD sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roma Rule | 6/9/2002 | See Source »

Harvard is hardly the lone outpost in higher education that recognizes the value of a year off. According to Breimer, the “time out” Harvard recommends has rapidly gained popularity among colleges and guidance counselors alike...

Author: By Dan Rosenheck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Back Door to the Yard | 6/6/2002 | See Source »

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