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While ordinary folk rarely encounter gang members or fall victim to gang violence, the gangs' reputation for brutality is well deserved. Many New Zealanders remember dreadful crimes that prompted tougher laws. In 1988, a 19-year-old woman was kidnapped and taken to a Mongrel Mob convention in Auckland, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tribal Trouble | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

One thing women find more real about Sex and the City is the parade of sorry guys whom Carrie and her friends encounter each week. It's hard to find a woman without at least one horror story of a guy like the one Bank used to date, who in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Needs a Husband? | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

Ubaid, 28, returned to her home in Dora, a notoriously violent Baghdad neighborhood, where U.S. and Iraqi forces fight fierce daily battles against Sunni insurgents. As the fighting escalated, her family deemed it too dangerous for her to leave the house. Lonely, she began calling Ali, 32, for the occasional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Romance, Baghdad Style | 7/2/2007 | See Source »

For the lucky few, an online encounter can be the start of a beautiful relationship. Mohammed Subhi, a Baghdad security guard, met Hester Terpstra, a Dutch native, on Skype. Terpstra had logged on from Alesund, Norway, where she works as a driving-school instructor. "I was just looking to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Romance, Baghdad Style | 7/2/2007 | See Source »

It's possible my love for him will return. It may take a Lassie moment in which he saves my child from a grizzly, but such an encounter is not so likely in New Jersey. In the meantime, he persists. The dog follows me like a bad smell, settling at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Demoting the Dog | 6/21/2007 | See Source »

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