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...Pastor Byun Kyung Ju told TIME that at the same checkpoint she saw another group of Asians in a car in front of them also being detained. Their luggage was set on fire by the side of the road, and the group was then hustled into another car and driven off.) Afraid to admit they were missionaries, the South Koreans insisted to their interrogators that they were just doctors and nurses. To prove their cover, another pastor even gave the head captor a healing massage, kneading the kidnapper's pressure points in the middle of the dusty Iraqi landscape...
...cutters from East Africa, set up the city's polishing industry in 1901. Business picked up in the 1970s, when India began cutting low-quality gemstones and exporting them to the U.S. Although Bombay is the commercial center of India's diamond business, its militant labor unions have increasingly driven the polishers to Surat, where wages for diamond cutters are lower, at $2,500-$3,500 a year, and workers are more pliable. In the past, Surat's diamond industry has been a hot spot of controversy, attracting accusations that some workshops employ children in sweatshop conditions. Many of Surat...
...BusinessWeek suggested that HBS—which has fallen in the student satisfaction segment of the survey in recent years—is driven by less-principled motives...
...Bloody Lovelies have an energetic pop-rock sound that is at once retro and yet utterly accessible. The fun the band is having comes through loud and clear on the album, making for happy sing-alongs and dreamy introspection alike. There are some standard piano-driven numbers like the opener “Hologram” and the gentler “Lonely Town.” The latter is sung with a delicate longing by vocalist Randy Wooten. But Wooten and his band prove they are just as capable of playing a good rollicking rock song with...
...saints. Kurt Cobain, if anything, achieved sainthood through his humanity. Even in the face of his suicide, drug addiction and his apparent attempts to disguise his own careerism, I cannot help but feel that there was something extraordinarily benign about his sense of alienation from the testosterone-driven culture of his home town, his avid defense of gay rights and his firm belief that women, rather than men, should rule the world. But if Cobain is a saint, then we must reexamine our definition of sainthood. Cobain’s brand was not one founded on moral perfectionism, guilt...