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...from winning; in Tamezguida Forest, Algiers. Upon being made leader of the antigovernment gia in 2001, Tourab was quoted as saying, "We will continue to destroy their harvests, take their goods, rape their women, decapitate them in the cities, the villages and the deserts." He died in a military sting operation. DIED. GERHARD WESSEL, 88, former official in Hitler's anti-Soviet spy operation and head of the West German intelligence agency, the Bundesnachrichtendienst, between 1968 and 1978; in Pullach, Germany. Wessel was credited with founding Germany's military counter-espionage agency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 8/5/2002 | See Source »

...best essayists, is a snob of the intellectual variety, which means he's a reverse snob. In other words, he disdains the trendy: "Sometimes all it takes for me to drop an enthusiasm is the knowledge that someone I think commonplace has picked it up." Candor always takes the sting out of snobbery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To Be A Snob Or Not To Be | 7/15/2002 | See Source »

...paradise for mixed-race children of the British empire. What Kitty remembers most about the early days is the hope. The settlers' idea was to create nothing less than a mini-state for Anglo-Indians. Their leader: Ernest McCluskie, a Scot-Indian who had felt personally the sting of discrimination from both the British and from Indians who resented that their mixed-race countrymen were eligible for better jobs. As a wealthy trader, McCluskie was in a position to do something about it. So in 1932, he bought 4,000 hectares of jungle in the hills of eastern India, part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letter from India: No Place Like Home | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

Eventually, a police sting broke up the operation and Alson says he was arrested and spent 36 hours in jail...

Author: By Alexander J. Blenkinsopp, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Struggling Author Writes Memoir Of Illegal Gambling | 6/4/2002 | See Source »

...Lowdown: The entrance music of one of these class dorks has got to be the rap from "Revenge of the Nerds." Vegas gives the edge to Palillo, but don't expect a quick knockout. Diamond showed Sting-like stamina by trotting out puberty jokes for more than a decade over three "Saved By the Bell" series. And he's also a patient strategist, as he displayed in the instructional home video "Dustin Diamond Teaches Chess." We're thinking upset city. Fearless Prediction: Decision for Diamond, who then calls out Urkel Links: • PEOPLE catches up with Ron Palillo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ready to, um, Rumble | 5/21/2002 | See Source »

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