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...ELECTED. TARJA HALONEN, 62, as President of Finland; in Helsinki. The Social Democrat's low-key campaign emphasized Finland's ties with neighboring Russia, the European Union and NATO, to which the country has moved closer in recent years. Ceding victory, former Finance Minister Sauli Niinistö, kissed Halonen's hand and said, "The man has lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 2/6/2006 | See Source »

...with his projects. Beside the Venice lagoon, you could practically hear the noise from Bosnia, an hour's hop across the Adriatic. (Some sporting Italians, it is said, fly over for the weekend, hoping to see some shooting and maybe even to do some violence themselves.) Nineteen-year-old Tarja Krehic from Bosnia told the others about the mysterious onset of evil in her neighborhood: "Hate came, I don't know from where." A 19-year-old from Kenya, Kim Muhota, reported that in the streets of Nairobi, children are known to wield discarded hypodermic needles (carrying God knows what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE EVIL AT THE DRAGON'S FEET | 6/19/1995 | See Source »

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