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...greatest danger is not the playground bully but something far worse: the possibility of being kidnapped and sold to a local warlord who fancies young boys. In Afghanistan, where a premium is placed on women's honor and chastity, young boys are often considered fair game for sex. Indeed, according to Ahmed Rashid, a Pakistani author and expert on the Taliban's rise, the religious movement, with its strict emphasis on law and order, started in the early 1990s after a drunken commander picked up one of Mullah Mohammed Omar's young seminarians and performed a mock, public wedding with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kabul's New Sensation | 4/4/2005 | See Source »

...manage out in the countryside, especially if there is a bombing raid, as running for cover doesn't seem to be in the cards; but I say I don't want to change our plans, and everyone nods. In retrospect I wonder about my insistence at continuing despite the danger. Yes, I was numb with exhaustion and pain. But more to the point is my character: to turn away out of fear is just about unthinkable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Book Excerpt: My Life So Far | 4/4/2005 | See Source »

...Crimson entered the final frame trailing 6-4 and in danger of dropping its third straight game...

Author: By Lande A. Spottswood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baseball Splits Six-Game Spring Break Road Trip to New York, Florida | 4/4/2005 | See Source »

...majority of Americans want. As college students, our retirement seems far away, but we must not forget that Social Security has been the most successful domestic program since its creation. If we do not act to protect Social Security now, the retirement security of our generation will be in danger...

Author: By Seth R. Flaxman and Piper M. Harlan, S | Title: FOCUS: Bush’s Plan For Social Insecurity | 4/4/2005 | See Source »

...danger is far greater than a disappointing experience of democracy, or what now seems to be an inevitable delay in the timetable for the drafting of a new constitution. The relentless bloodletting of the insurgency continues, and most of its victims are Shiites and Kurds. Pressure for reprisals is growing despite the insistence by the Shiite and Kurdish leadership that their people resist the provocation intended by sectarian killing - after all, Sunnis already imagine themselves marginalized by the transition in Iraq, and any sectarian reprisals will only deepen Sunni support for the insurgency. A majority of Iraqis voted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Power Vacuum in Iraq? | 3/29/2005 | See Source »

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