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...should know about me," says the title character (Billie Piper), "is that I'm a whore." Her name is the second thing--and the third: she's "Belle" to her clients, "Hannah" (her real name) off the job. (The series is based on a blog by pseudonymous London escort Belle de Jour, named for the Catherine Deneuve movie.) Finally, she offers her motivations: "I love sex," she says. "I love money...
...Ripe for Revolution A recent - and extremely rare - trip into a Naxalite zone in the state of Chhattisgarh shows just how much control the Maoists have in India's neglected heartland. After weeks of negotiating, I received word from a senior commander there that cadres from the area would escort a photographer and me into the field to meet a rebel unit. After an early morning, two-hour motorbike ride along dirt roads south of the town of Dantewada, across rivers where women beat their clothes against rocks and through villages full of thatched and terracotta-roofed huts, scrawny chickens...
...attract attention from those who may be able to help. 6. Remember that your primary goal is to escape, and take advantage of any opportunity to flee. If you are concerned about your well being, remember that the Harvard University Police Department has free nighttime services: the campus escort program and an evening van. You can also sign up online for self defense classes offered by the Rape Aggression Defense RAD program. Good luck studying and stay safe...
...April with a conviction, is one of very few such cases prosecuted in the federal courts. Most prostitution violations are dealt with at the state or municipal level, and attract little publicity. In the Palfrey case, prosecutors obliged a string of obviously embarrassed clients and employees of the escort service to appear on the witness stand and testify under oath. Nearly all testified that they had engaged in sexual acts in exchange for money, a version of events that contradicted Palfrey's claims that she had been running a high-end sexual fantasy service - and that any actual sexual activity...
According to Moldea, who last year examined Palfrey's phone records and discovered the name of Vitter, a Republican, as a client of Palfrey's escort servie - Pamela Martin & Associates - the last time he saw Palfrey in person was less than week before her conviction on prostitution charges on April 15. "A friend and I met with Jeanne and we had a sushi lunch near the courtroom," he said. "She was upbeat and hopeful. She felt the prosecution had not made the case and that she was going to walk. She was hopeful to the end." But, when the jury...