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...affiliated seminaries launched a campaign for Shari'a, occupying a nearby children's library and embarking on vigilante raids through the capital to stop what they called "un-Islamic activities," such as DVD vendors, barber shops and a Chinese-run massage parlor that they accused of being a brothel. The siege culminated in a terrifying shootout that the government says killed 102, including Aziz's brother and son. Aziz was arrested as he tried to escape dressed in a burqa, the full body veil favored by female students of the conservative seminary. (See pictures of a jihadist's journey from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Pakistan's Red Mosque, a Return of Islamic Militancy | 4/17/2009 | See Source »

...Three months later he was dead, killed during one of the many bloody episodes in Iraq's brutal war. After the obligatory four-month mourning period dictated by Islamic Shari'a law, Atoor's mother and two brothers made it clear that they intended to sell her to a brothel close to their home in western Baghdad, just as they had sold her older twin sisters. Frightened, she told a friend in the police force to raid her home and the nearby brothel. His unit did, and Atoor spent the next two years in prison. She was not charged with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq's Unspeakable Crime: Mothers Pimping Daughters | 3/7/2009 | See Source »

...soul. Rakewell’s troubles lead him from a happy spring day in the countryside with his sweetheart Anne Trulove (Eva E.M. Schlitz ’09) to a climactic midnight cemetery scene and, eventually, to an insane asylum. Along the way stops are made in a brothel owned by Mother Goose and at Tom’s wedding to Baba the Turk (Sofia M. Selowsky ’12), London’s most renowned bearded lady.While Auden’s libretto for the most part lacked the moroseness so typical of other renderings of the Faust legend...

Author: By Diego H. Nunez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Rake's Progress' Progressive | 2/17/2009 | See Source »

...playing up the sexy side of the show a lot. And there is something weirdly brothel-like about the Dollhouse. How much is the show about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Joss Whedon, creator of Dollhouse | 2/13/2009 | See Source »

...study breaks, and was staying in Annenberg late into every night. I was getting nowhere with the girls of the class of 2009 and wasn’t doing much better with Domna. It turned out that Room 13 wasn’t a brothel after all, and the girls coming out of the Wellesley shuttle were never as reckless as I had hoped they’d be. I decided to put all my eggs in one basket: the Dewey Decimal System basket. I figured the kind of girl I wanted would hang out at Lamont in the 636s...

Author: By Daniel K Bilotti and Vincent M Chiappini, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Prestige and Mobility: Sex in Houghton | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

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