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...being confronted with an unfathomable crime.' GUENTHER PLATTER, Austrian Interior Minister, on the rescue of a 42-year-old woman who was kept in a cellar and sexually abused by her father for 24 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

...wisdom of placing a building that will hold, at any one time, half a billion dollars' worth of diamonds on the border of a country with one of the world's highest violent-crime rates--South Africa--might be questionable. But the benefit to Botswana, through stable jobs in Gaborone, is undeniable. What will surprise many old industry hands, particularly those familiar with the saga of Sierra Leone's conflict diamonds, is how the building is also evidence of what the country can do for diamonds. "The way people feel about diamonds has to be the way they think about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gem of an Idea. | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

...midnight Monday in a Los Angeles mini-mall. Because the game is rated M for Mature, there were a few eager teens milling around in the parking lot, trying to bribe cool adults to get them a copy. What's worse? Buying teens cheap vodka or immersive sociopathic sandbox crime simulators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grand Theft Auto IV: The 6.24% Review | 4/30/2008 | See Source »

...April 18, the Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight passed the “Campus Crime Information Bill,” and the bill now awaits Massachusetts State Senate action...

Author: By Elliot Ikheloa, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HUPD may be forced to make police records publicly available by Massachusetts state law | 4/30/2008 | See Source »

...distorted and dangerous. It was this sort of thinking that helped make the Republicans the dominant party of the past 40 years. The left believed it was all right for people like Wright to condemn white America but it was "blaming the victim" to criticize the antisocial behavior-the crime and family disintegration-going on in the black community. When Obama-the avatar of a new generation of progressives-stepped away from Wright, he stepped away from 40 years of liberal self-laceration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exit Wright | 4/30/2008 | See Source »

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