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...three daughters of his own (his family thinks he is a building contractor), is to collect three 12-year-old girls and take them to Kuala Lumpur as prostitutes. As they are virgins, they will fetch $4,700 each. He hates doing it, Joe says, grimacing again, but he's only a lower level operative, a cog in a huge machine...
...come home for a visit," says Shekhar. But when he walked over, he found Babita slumped, barely conscious. The right side of her head was so swollen it hung over her ear. Her body was covered in nail scratches and bruises. Her thumb was broken. Shekhar ran to fetch his mother, and they rushed Babita to a hospital, where a doctor diagnosed a severe concussion. Then, gathering a furious crowd of neighbors, the family went to the police. Faced with an angry mob, Batra and her brother were arrested after eyewitnesses confirmed that the child was abused and overworked, forced...
Bush steps out of the car to finish the conversation in private, looking over the plants growing at the edge of the house. "That is good news," he says, showing only the slightest new enthusiasm after he rings off the phone. As I stand to leave, he starts playing fetch with Spot. Using a purple tennis racquet, he hits a tennis ball, brown from slobber. If I hadn't been there maybe he'd be on those phones, pacing, torturing the TV's rabbit ears to get clearer reception. But instead he starts talking about Yale. "I must admit that...
...petition the Supremes three weeks ago had been his; some advisers warned that he might not want them involved, but he had felt their judgment was crucial to the legitimacy of any final outcome. Now it looked as if the Justices might yet save him. Afterward, he played fetch with his dog Spot and then chopped down some cedar. He left it to his lieutenants to wage...
...book advance. She's fed up with others writing books about her and her rocky marriage. Word is that Clinton will tell her side of the story about life as First Lady (with details from her marriage and the impeachment) in a memoir that could fetch at least $7 million from publishers...