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...sweatshirt and flip-flops stood alone at the corner of the hotel. She said she was 15 and desperately needed help. I asked Lombard's volunteer to translate from Xhosa. Shockingly, this was Elizabeth - Sindiswa's best friend - still controlled by Jude. Having researched modern-day slavery for eight years, I knew how difficult it was for survivors to heal after emancipation. In this case, mere emancipation would be a dangerous procedure...
Zuma's pledge was too little, too late for Sindiswa, who died on July 22. Immediately after we took Elizabeth off the streets, Hamman and I drove her eight hours to her home in Eastern Cape. Wary of the failure rate of Lombard's unmonitored returns, we worked with a dedicated social worker in Indwe to ensure that the conditions under which she was originally trafficked did not reappear. A suburban-Chicago couple has given her a full scholarship, enabling the otherwise impossible goal of finishing school. She is HIV-negative. It is a stretch to call her lucky...
Buesser gave the Crimson a three-goal advantage eight minutes into the second frame. Rookie center Jillian Dempsey took a pass from classmate Kelsey Romatoski and brought the puck up the left boards. Dempsey found her linemate at the right post, and Buesser tapped it in for a 3-0 lead...
Harvard saw more success in the second of these, as it held Brittney Smith, the reigning Ivy League Player of the Year, to six points, and the Smith sisters to a combined total of eight. But the Big Green found offense from other sources, namely Sasha Dosenko and Faziah Steen, who combined for 21 points. A Steen layup early in the second half gave Dartmouth an imposing 11-point lead...
...racism, politics and conspiracy. Three years after Conyers introduced preliminary legislation in 1968, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference - which King headed from its inception until his death - presented Congress with a petition signed by more than 3 million people supporting a King holiday. The bill languished in Congress for eight years, unable to gain enough support until President Jimmy Carter, former governor of Georgia and the first Democratic President since Lyndon Johnson, vowed to support a King holiday. (See pictures from the life of Coretta Scott King...