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...with conviction 11. Campus bigwig 19. Business-card abbr. 20. Schooner filler 22. "Cease!" at sea 23. Rocky -- 24. Adjective for the Beatles 25. Suffix with expert 26. S or N 27. It may be lent or bent 29. Doris Day title starter 30. William Tell's canton 31. Pothook shape 32. Rode the bench 34. Mauna __ 37. Wall St. debut 38. Chaotic place 40. Record exec Davis, who's getting the boot 41. Jazz players 42. Village Voice award 43. Iditarod terminus 44. Peripatetic sort 46. F or G, but not H 47. Scott in 1857 news 48. Israeli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Crossword May 22, 2000 | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

...article by 37-Across and a Bush adviser 41. Kicker's target, perhaps 42. Where Bill and Hillary met 43. Slumgullion or burgoo 44. Where Georgia is located 47. Recreational wheels, for short 49. They walked out of disarmament talks 50. Hillary didn't leave one 51. Pothook shape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Crossword Mar. 6, 2000 | 3/6/2000 | See Source »

...nine, eight are printed in Urdu, the other in English. Seven are strictly one-man shows in which the proprietor hustles ads and copy, cribs items from the old newspapers arriving by train, cuts by hand the pothook stencils of the Urdu script. Then he makes the rounds of Quetta's three print shops, pursuing the lowest print rate of the week. Advertisers are rare, since Quettan merchants prefer to do all their pitching over a hookah at the bazaar, so the publisher must seek revenue from other sources. From Baluchistan's maliks (tribal chieftains), the shrewd editor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Package Deal | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

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