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...common in the Arab world, the law in Jordan winks at honor killers. If a man catches his wife or a close female relative in the act of adultery and kills her, he is exempt from punishment. If the situation only suggests illicit sex, he's entitled to a reduced sentence. In such cases, jail terms range from a few months to a few years. Sirhan served six months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Price of Honor | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

...Judging from Nina Persson's previously weightless vocals on such vintage pop songs as "Lovefool," I never expected her fiery onstage performance. Bristling with sexuality in her skin-tight leather pants, Persson sang with harnessed intensity and a flirtatious half-smile, as if her very appearance were a wicked, illicit joke between her and the audience. For the dark, menacing songs about the hardness of love that she presented, the coy, harsh delivery was like a sucker punch; she could talk about love's cruel ways not because she was the injured lover, but because she was the cruelty...

Author: By Jared S. White, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Cardigans Offer A Night of Ghastly Energy, Vigor | 11/20/1998 | See Source »

...vast right-wing conspiracy" that Hillary Rodham Clinton once said was out to get her husband can be a little hard to pin down. But among the President's defenders, one basic diagram goes this way: at the center is what they call the iron triangle, an illicit cooperation between independent counsel Kenneth Starr and the lawyers for Paula Jones. At the hypotenuse is Linda Tripp, the go-between who first alerted Starr to Monica Lewinsky's false affidavit in the Jones case. Around this triangle is a circle, a group of loosely affiliated Clinton haters who fostered ties among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Right Connection | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

Were there smoldering glances? No Yes Passionate embraces? No Yes Illicit sex? No Yes Ingenues taken advantage of by cads? No Yes Silly gifts? No Yes Shared secrets? Yes Yes Lies? Yes Yes Betrayals? Yes Yes Treachery by false friends? Yes Yes Could key parts in the drama be played by Mia Farrow and Ryan O'Neal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Oct. 19, 1998 | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

According to the museum display, the mayor was accused of illicit sexual relations as well as "making a door for his private house from wood belonging to the palace, looting a sealed house, numerous thefts and kidnapping." All this and more is waiting for you at the Semitic Museum...

Author: By Dara Horm, | Title: The Monica of Mesopotamia | 10/15/1998 | See Source »

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