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...feet jump up, run upstairs and return clutching gambling counters. "What the customers paid," explains Mama San. In the three months since Lek was brought to this back-street brothel in the northern Thai town of Mae Sai, she has collected eight white chips and four blues--equal to $59.50. Tip has done better: her chips add up to $163. "Not a bad little earner," says Mama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How I Bought Two Slaves, To Free Them | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

...main fear is that a secular India, with equal rights for all, will evolve into a tyranny of the majority Hindus - a calamitous idea in a country where the main minority group makes up almost 15% of the population. And if that tyranny ever arises, its soldiers are already identifiable and organized in groups allied with the BJP. They bear a frightening similarity to the fundamentalist Muslims who have declared war on the West. The Hindus wield tridents and sticks and talk of protecting the Hindu nation while the latter carry assault rifles and promote an Islamic state. Both feel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Killing Thy Neighbor | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

Primm, too, hopes to equal or even surpass the 28 goals and 14 assists he amassed en route to earning Ivy League Rookie of the Year honors as a freshman two years...

Author: By Alan G. Ginsberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Lax Aims To Replace Last Year’s Senior Corps | 3/7/2002 | See Source »

...thing that sustained me and most of my generation was not affirmative action, but the belief that we were all created equal,” Connerly said. “To look at the color of somebody’s skin and to think we are going to [give that preference], that violates every belief I believe we ought to have...

Author: By Rina Fujii, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Experts Debate Merits Of Affirmative Action | 3/6/2002 | See Source »

...represented in the powerful 12-member Presidium, which sets the Convention's agenda. Jan Kavan, the Czech Foreign Minister and a Convention delegate, will submit a written proposal this week to add two candidate-country representatives. "That would reassure the candidate countries that the slogan, 'We're all equal,' is serious," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outsiders Eager to Get In | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

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