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...detective thriller about the mysterious death of a six-year-old Inuit boy. Unlikely too is the investigator, Smilla Qaavigaaq Jaspersen, a woman caught between the native Greenland culture of her hunter-tracker mother and the well-appointed world of her Danish father, a physician and scientist. Like Ross Macdonald in his Lew Archer novels of darkest California, Hoeg creates an unfamiliar but palpable world that steadily envelops the reader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BEST BOOKS OF 1993 | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

Trading with the Former Enemy / Almost two decades after the war ended, President Clinton will finally and fully lift the U.S. trade embargo with Vietnam in the next few weeks, say those familiar with his plans. Meanwhile, Ross Perot hopes to fight to keep the embargo in place, and recently held a strategy summit to plan his campaign. In attendance were the leaders of two major groups of MIA/POW relatives, as well as Republican Senator Bob Smith of New Hampshire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Informed Sources: Jan. 3, 1994 | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

...LOSERS ROSS PEROT Still whiny, cranky and short, he becomes ever more irrelevant as his polls fall, his TV infomercial ratings fade and he flops in the NAFTA debate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners & Losers: Jan. 3, 1994 | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

...director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. He added that he has been trying to raise more awareness among students and staff about this new service. Students and university employees do not have to sign up or pay up front to use the service, according to Lee Ann Ross, director of insurance at Harvard’s Risk Management and Audit Services (RMAS). RMAS arranged the program. SOS “will pay the cost up front, and then they will work with your insurance carrier to seek reimbursement afterwards,” Ross said. The insurance offers...

Author: By James H. O'keefe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: University Offers Insurance to Travelers | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

...getting people comfortable with the idea." (That may be a tad extreme. The argument assumes, on the one hand, that people weren't already willing to elect a woman and ignores, on the other, that CiC's viewership of 15 million or 16 million does not quite reach Ross Perot's tally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Commander in Change | 10/23/2005 | See Source »

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