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...Chernov: We expected an expert professional investigation as the basis for decision-making. Instead, incompetent conmen came up with hasty decisions. We said outright that it was an adventurist sham. They can't even have their equipment moved to the place on time. But the weather in the area will get prohibitive within a couple of weeks. The whole thing is doomed to fail. I can't find decent words to describe all this. I can only suspect that they never intended to raise the Kursk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Kursk Salvage is an Adventurist Scam' | 8/27/2001 | See Source »

...upgraded U.S. arms. There's a large strategic ambiguity in One China, but I think Washington has no real alternative but to persist with that ambiguity - maintaining the balance between the two sides, but refraining from giving Taiwan the impression that they have carte blanche to take more adventurist paths to independence, while signaling Beijing that an invasion would have enormous costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Culture Gap Fuels U.S.-China Standoff' | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

...only twins with differences in our family. My father, a writer and former diplomat, had an identical twin brother, Francis, who was a right-brained banker. Francis, who died in 1992, also had identical twin daughters. My cousin Rose is an intense adventurist while her sister Peg is softer and more traditional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Sister, My Clone | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

...only twins with differences in our family. My father, a writer and former diplomat, had an identical twin brother, Francis, who was a right-brained banker. Francis, who died in 1992, also had identical twin daughters. My cousin Rose is an intense adventurist while her sister Peg is softer and more traditional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Human Cloning: My Sister, My Clone | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

...Undergraduate Council has unilaterally disqualified four out of five ballot questions .His Eminence, President and Grand Poobah Carey Gabay '94, Master of Peons and Terror of 12 Houses, through the unbounded benevolence of his magnanimous heart, has allowed a single question to remain, while chastising dangerous hooligan and adventurist counter-revolutionary Anjalee C. Davis '94 for her pernicious bourgeois-democratic notions. Gabay's electoral monkey business, under the guise of legalistic hair-splitting, would have done a despot like Juvenal Habyarimana proud...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: DARTBOARD | 4/16/1994 | See Source »

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