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...World countries undergo at the hands of their dictators. The solution to the problems of these countries is for the developed nations to outlaw the use of coded or secret accounts. This would limit the ease with which public funds are stolen and hidden away. INYANG IME EFFIONG Dundee, Scotland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 14, 1999 | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...Among the Scots it has been largely confined to the soccer field. After all, they receive 32 percent more per capita of London's public funds than the English do, which may be part of the reason why Tony Blair's Labor Party is still the largest bloc in Scotland even though voters denied it an outright majority last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How a Centralized Europe Makes Scots Feel the Oats of Independence | 5/7/1999 | See Source »

...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 »

...Against such intrusion Harvard deploys police, guards, locks, and awareness, what all of us see as a common and largely successful effort against harm. We glance at the stranger, report the lurker, lock the door. About all that Assassin teaches little. No one calls the game Perimeter Defense or Scotland Yard. Yet our continuous awareness, sometimes great, sometimes less, of external threat frequently deflects out attention from the very real harm now and then occasioned by people inside the gates. Assassin is basic training against date-rape...

Author: By Professor JOHN R. stilgoe, | Title: IN THE MEANTIME | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...Against such intrusion Harvard deploys police, guards, locks, and awareness, what all of us see as a common and largely successful effort against harm. We glance at the stranger, report the lurker, lock the door. About all that Assassin teaches little. No one calls the game Perimeter Defense or Scotland Yard. Yet our continuous awareness, sometimes great, sometimes less, of external threat frequently deflects our attention from the very real harm now and then occasioned by people inside the gates. Assassin is basic training against date-rape...

Author: By Professor JOHN R. stilgoe, | Title: Why Not Assassin? | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

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