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Although the landmark repatriation was immediately trumpeted as a victory for Britain's new law, human-rights activists - and even the British government - have been quick to point out that her case is just one in a grossly underreported global problem. According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Way to Curb Forced Marriages | 12/26/2008 | See Source »

How, then, do harmful traditions like forced marriage fall? Legislation is most effective when coupled with an education campaign that addresses the everyday obstacles immigrants encounter in their adopted homelands, says Oxford's Talib. "A person's emotional, social and economic dependence sometimes accounts for them becoming an easy prey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Way to Curb Forced Marriages | 12/26/2008 | See Source »

Another contrast to 1989 is the fact that the Party's leadership is solidly united about how this crisis needs to be tackled so as to best preserve its authority. Internal disputes about how to handle the Tiananmen protest allowed them to drag on for months and swell in size...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will the Financial Crisis Bring Upheaval to China? | 12/25/2008 | See Source »

Or - maybe - the whole thing is just a canard, the backlash against a wave of political correctness that swept the U.S. in the late '90s, resulting in some strange new concessions to cultural sensitivity: cities insisting on calling the telltale conifers "holiday trees," efforts to ban the pleasantry "Merry Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War on Christmas | 12/24/2008 | See Source »

That schedule of Christmas events is now the default tradition for most Americans. Some pastors understand the cultural emphasis but consider it an obstacle to focusing on the spiritual messages of Christmas. "We've seen churches embrace the Americana idea of Christmas," says Michael Hidalgo, lead pastor at the multi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going to Church on Christmas: A Vanishing Tradition | 12/24/2008 | See Source »

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