Word: girls
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...Last week I went to Jowzjan province where I met an 11-year-old girl who had been raped about six months ago. Her family had to pay bribes to pursue the case in the courts. Her sister told me that under the Taliban that man would have been executed. "We want the Taliban back," she said, "because they gave us justice." The Taliban did provide that sort of justice. They were much better in that way. Yes, that's true...
...file held pictures of a girl who had been sent to Australia in 2000. One of the gang confessed to stealing the child from Washermanpet, and the photo was matched to the missing Zabeen. Her parents had left the city to escape the bad memories, but in mid-2005 the police found them. "They said, We think we have found your daughter," says Fatima. "I was so happy. We both went to the police station and it was midnight when we got there. They took us into separate rooms and showed us photos from the MSS books. Separately we both...
...TIME has learned that Australian authorities had plenty of warning that MSS was a suspect agency and could have ended adoptions from it well before Zabeen's was processed. Five years earlier, a Western Australian family had their MSS adoption of a five-year-old girl canceled after an Indian court found the orphanage was lying when it said she had been abandoned. In reality, she'd been claimed by her uncle. Orphanage director Ravindranath told authorities the child was hallucinating when she insisted she had a family...
JUNE 13 A lip-synching Amber Lee Ettinger--a.k.a. Obama Girl--goes on YouTube to declare the most famous crush in modern political history...
...meters last weekend, the first gold for her country in that event. (She was followed in second and third place by fellow Jamaicans Sherone Simpson and Kerron Stewart.) To international track-and-field enthusiasts, Fraser, 21, seemed to emerge from nowhere; but to Jamaicans, she's the girl who used to train barefooted in her home neighborhood of Waterhouse, a particularly tough ghetto on the outskirts of Kingston. One of the first things she did after her Beijing victory was grab her cellphone and call her mother Maxine back in Waterhouse. Maxine, a street vendor and former sprinter herself...