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...usually a sexual indiscretion or marriage against the family's wishes. Typically, the killers are punished lightly, if at all. In Jordan a man who slays his wife or a close relative after catching her in the act of adultery is exempt from punishment. If the situation only suggests illicit sex, he gets a reduced sentence. The Jordanian royal family has made the rare move of condemning honor killings, but the government, fearful of offending conservatives, has not put its weight behind a proposal to repeal laws that grant leniency for killers. Jordan's Islamic Action Front, a powerful political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Islam: The Women Of Islam | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

...only did the cell actively recruit members to al-Qaeda, arrange their transport to Afghanistan training camps and provide illicit funding to the terrorist outfit, Garzón claims. But unlike its counterparts in Paris, Brussels, Frankfurt, Milan and Sarajevo, the Madrid cell also "may have been directly involved in the preparation and implementation" of the U.S. attacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bust In Madrid | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

...usually a sexual indiscretion or marriage against the family's wishes. Typically, the killers are punished lightly, if at all. In Jordan a man who slays his wife or a close relative after catching her in the act of adultery is exempt from punishment. If the situation only suggests illicit sex, he gets a reduced sentence. The Jordanian royal family has made the rare move of condemning honor killings, but the government, fearful of offending conservatives, has not put its weight behind a proposal to repeal laws that grant leniency for killers. Jordan's Islamic Action Front, a powerful political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Women of Islam | 11/25/2001 | See Source »

...most of the past two years, Jeff Roberts, 53, spent virtually every weekend away from his wife Doris, also 53. Not for sales trips, not for hunting with the boys and certainly not for anything illicit. Jeff has been caring for his 86-year-old parents at their nearby home in southeastern Ohio. After his mother had a stroke in 1999, the family hired a five-day-a-week live-in caretaker for her and her husband, a dialysis patient who had lost one leg. (He died last June.) When the care worker took off on Friday nights, Jeff stepped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caregiving: Couples, Coping | 11/12/2001 | See Source »

...FINANCIAL BACKING] U.S. authorities believe bin Laden uses Pakistan's illicit money-transfer trade to move cash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Worldwide Web | 11/12/2001 | See Source »

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