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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...self-conscious of my formal work attire (and gender), which marked me as a clear outsider. Customers in gay bars eyed me with bemused curiosity, but after a brief chat with the manager I was granted a seat amongst the regular clientele, and felt unusually safe as a lone girl at a pub. My status as a reporter provided a credible reason for admittance, and it was exhilarating to infiltrate the generally closed-off community...

Author: By Olivia M. Goldhill | Title: Press Pass | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

...Sometimes she looks like a primary-school girl and sometimes a pensioner going shopping.' A NORTH KOREAN FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESMAN, accusing Clinton of being "unaware of elementary etiquette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

...reason I'm wary of action sports is that I'm a bit of a spaz. I first learned this 45 years ago when, while bicycling, I turned to stick out my tongue at a girl and crashed into a pole. I totaled my three-speed and nearly my body. Since then, I have broken both legs--one skiing, the other playing football. I tried mountain-biking a few years ago and took an epic spill on my first downhill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tricycles for Adults | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

Nevertheless, a tiara-donning girl interrupted my view, throwing handfuls of confetti at my wandering face. Some of it went up my nose. That’ll be there awhile. Apparently she just graduated from high school. Huzzah. We stole a piece of the sheet cake her parents were casually guarding, guiltily offering a weak “congratulations...

Author: By D. PATRICK Knoth | Title: Fleeing the Fuzzy Earmuffs | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

...erupted into days of protests, until the state's ruling Congress-led government announced on Aug. 5 a judicial inquiry and suspended six cops implicated in the case. This followed an earlier incident in another troubled state, Kashmir, where police are suspected to have raped and killed a teenage girl and her pregnant sister-in-law, disposing of their bodies in a canal. It took a series of statewide protests and subsequent political intervention to get the police to step down from their initial claim that the women had just drowned. While the identity of the culprits is still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can India Reform Its Wayward Police Force? | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

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