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...hewn from quarries in the suburbs of Bondi, Maroubra, Neutral Bay and Pyrmont. It built some of the city's greatest landmarks: the Town Hall, the Queen Victoria Building, St. Mary's and St. Andrew's cathedrals. Granite came from as far away as Scotland, sitting as ballast in passenger and cargo ships; later it was quarried at Goulburn outside Sydney, and on the southern New South Wales coast at Moruya, which provided the stone for the pylons of the Harbour Bridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitting Its Stride | 9/13/2000 | See Source »

...government of affording protection to these criminals. Critics have failed to produce credible evidence for their unsupported and thus irresponsible accusations. Greek police have worked for many years to track down terrorists and bring them to justice. Those efforts have recently been intensified in collaboration with the FBI and Scotland Yard. The government of Greece has also increased the reward for information leading to the dismantling of the 17 November group to $4.25 million. It has established hot lines through which individuals can anonymously pass on information about terrorist activities and has introduced a witness-protection program to help convict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 4, 2000 | 9/4/2000 | See Source »

MATRICULATING. PRINCE WILLIAM, 18, heir to the heir to the British throne and towheaded teen pinup; to Scotland's St. Andrews University; to study art history after taking this year off to work and travel the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Aug. 28, 2000 | 8/28/2000 | See Source »

...elements in British and U.S. intelligence. These powerful, shadowy mavericks shake down high-rolling international crooks for big protection money and then use their law-enforcement connections to make sure the bad guys get away with their misdeeds. Which is how Grace Flint, on an undercover assignment from New Scotland Yard, gets her lovely face stomped in and many bones in her equally winning body broken during a blown operation in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Say Hello to Our Woman Flint | 8/21/2000 | See Source »

...going to invest four years of your life getting a liberal arts education, you might as well go the distance and choose the absolute least useful course of study. Now, about choosing a college. Apparently you've expressed some interest in a couple of schools in Scotland, the Oxbridge schools and the University of East Anglia. I'm going to urge you to toward East Anglia - not only does it have a wonderful art history department, but the dorms are located very close to "council housing," somewhat similar to our "housing projects." This way, you see, you can stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Happy Birthday, Prince William, From TIME.com | 6/21/2000 | See Source »

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