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Women can protect themselves from being victimized in the long run through educational programs like RAD and HASTE, but for day-to-day safety concerns, such as walking home late from the library, an escort service is essential...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYING IT SAFER | 10/11/1996 | See Source »

...Ruhuna. One told of how during an ambush by thugs intent on killing him, he calmly asked for a moment to make his peace with God--a fearless request that virtually disarmed them, allowing him to go free. Though he had enemies on all sides, he regularly traveled without escort in a country where the two tribes are hell-bent on destroying each other, where more than 150,000 people have been killed since 1993, where in July the last elected President had to flee for his life into the U.S. embassy, where he remains to this day. The Roman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OF DEATH AND DEFIANCE | 9/23/1996 | See Source »

...female counterpart. On the way out we bumped into the Crimson photographer who had taken a bizarre photo of Chelsea that would make the front page the next day. It made poor Chelsea look like a cat-cornered mouse, and it earned the eager photographer a kind escort outside and a request not to re-enter. Funny, she seemed all too happy to smile effervescently with me while a Crimson editor friend captured the moment on Kodak Gold. Here's the moment...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: Just Another Harvard Hopeful | 9/21/1996 | See Source »

...signs that virtue is growing ever more chic: actor Charlie Sheen, who ran up a $50,000 tab with the Heidi Fleiss escort service, has declared himself a born-again Christian. ("There's such a thing as having too much fun," he concluded after years of arduous research.) Geraldo Rivera, who pioneered the craft of filing video dispatches from the primordial ooze, now bemoans the filth of daytime TV and vows to clean up his act. ("I'm sick of the garbage that is on.") A p.r. executive whose past clients include Michael Jackson is leading a campaign to build...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONVENTION '96: THE FALSE POLITICS OF VALUES | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

Later Thursday evening I drove us back to Connecticut. Reporters were on our property taking pictures. My mother, who was staying at our house, was scared and had called the police, who came over. They arranged to meet our car a mile from the house to escort us home. Reporters had surrounded the house and were shining lights at the car. I kept honking and driving in slowly. I called a friend who has a private security service, and he sent two guards over. Some friends had brought food and had dinner waiting on the table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LET HE WHO IS WITHOUT SIN... | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

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