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...requires a tough stomach to talk to Adams at a time when rumors of renewed IRA activity in Northern Ireland are rife. The London Daily Telegraph on Wednesday quoted "unidentified senior security sources" as saying the terrorist organization had resumed training, recruitment and weapons testing. Is Blair worried? Perhaps, but he says it's worth "taking a few risks" for peace. The Labor Prime Minister said he would tell Adams: "If you return to violence there will be no place for you at the negotiation table." No word on whether the Sinn Fein leader was asked to walk through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. Adams Goes to Downing Street | 12/11/1997 | See Source »

DIED. HAROLD GENEEN, 87, empire builder; of a heart attack; in New York City. During his 18 years as CEO of International Telephone & Telegraph (1959 to 1977), Geneen used some 300 takeovers to build ITT into one of history's most sprawling conglomerates, only to see a successor, Rand Araskog, strip down the company to its hotel-and-gaming core, which is likely to be sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Dec. 1, 1997 | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

...Indian writer's debut work, a frenetic treatise on caste prejudice, has had a mixed reception: At least one reviewer found it "pretty hard going" and the London Daily Telegraph described it as "emotive but meaningless verbiage, crammed with inappropriate metaphors." But what seemed to attract the most attention was the near-$2 million paid to its writer before it was even published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Booker Win Is No Small Thing | 10/15/1997 | See Source »

...donations. We need this the most, and it would cost almost nothing. The best way to clean up the campaign-finance mess is to bring it all into the sunlight, instantly. Currently, campaigns must file quarterly with the Federal Election Commission. We might as well be using the telegraph in the age of E-mail. Instead each candidate should report every contribution to the FEC daily--and the FEC should be required to make it all available instantly via the Internet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 12 STEPS TO RECOVERY | 7/14/1997 | See Source »

...uniquely American faith that community and freedom must be compatible. It may be that the greater glory of the place is that we are able to be so divided over so many things yet still keep discovering ways to link ourselves and express those differences without flying apart. The telegraph. A love song. A protest march. The voting booth. And if all else fails, there's always the road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BACKBONE OF AMERICA | 7/7/1997 | See Source »

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