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...form of opposition would still remain. In reality, white farmers and their lands fire up emotions, but this issue does not rank among Zimbabwe's top 10 difficulties. The agricultural sector has been one of the country's few shining lights. Zimbabweans know the only solution is to get rid of their single biggest problem--President Mugabe. GAVIN MURRAY Tonbridge, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 22, 2000 | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

...American Pie but then no one would give me jobs! So then I got a job at a law firm as a handyman-I was painting the walls and fixing toilets and I was like, "Dude. I just did a Universal Studios movie. This sucks!" But then I got rid of that job and my friend hooked me up with the zoo job. I was like, "Yo, animals, riding around in a cart, kiddies, what could be better?" So I get there and the manager goes, "Sean, this will be your food stand. Here's your hat and your uniform...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Oh, The Places They're Going | 5/19/2000 | See Source »

Primaries, after all, were initially intended to get rid of the smoke-filled back room, the political machine--and to make American politics more democratic. The Delaware Plan should help them truly...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Rethinking the Primaries | 5/19/2000 | See Source »

...mercenaries' price was that they wanted a slice of the diamond industry themselves as part of their payment. And that's something the West found objectionable. So part of the condition for foreign assistance through the U.N. and the World Bank was that the government had to get rid of the mercenaries. The problem is that once the mercenaries withdrew, the rebels quickly overran the diamond fields and that changed the nature of the war. Once they controlled the diamonds, the rebels had a major source of income with which they could acquire weaponry and build themselves up into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Nightcap in the Killing Zone | 5/11/2000 | See Source »

...Labor party, showed interest in the job, the prime minister was having none of it. Although the iconoclastic Livingstone, a longtime favorite of Londoners since the mid-?80s, when he headed the Greater London Council - and so irritated Margaret Thatcher that she abolished the institution to get rid of him - won almost three quarters of the vote in the Labor party's primary, Blair fixed the selection process to ensure that his pick, former education secretary Frank Dobson, would get the nod. But that so enraged London Labor voters that they've flocked overwhelmingly to Livingstone's independent campaign. Going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tsk! Tsk! Why Londoners Want to Slap Tony Blair | 5/3/2000 | See Source »

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