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...were finally given a passport, after being denied one by the state for many years, you were as happy as a kid. "Can you believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ode to a Murdered Turkish Editor | 1/25/2007 | See Source »

...procession carried posters that read "301 is the real killer." "His murder has started some soul-searching," says Hakan Altinay, director of the Open Society Institute in Turkey. "Turks need to look at themselves and ask how they could have bred the xenophobia and paranoia that would lead a kid to do this. Everyone has some degree of responsibility here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Editor's Death Spotlights Turkish Nationalism | 1/23/2007 | See Source »

...parent about birthday parties and you'll probably get a sigh and a description of the last party their kid went to - limousine service, a petting zoo or Ferris wheel, and definitely elaborate goody bags - followed by their despair at having to organize their own equally expensive party for their child's birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: $38,000 Kids' Birthday Parties? | 1/22/2007 | See Source »

...Parents also complain about providing goody bags, which can add another $3 to $25 dollars per kid to the cost of the party. "You end up spending hundreds of dollars and then find it all at the bottom of the toy box," says Ginny Loving, a mother of two in Virginia. Recently, Loving, Cadby and six of her friends got together and risked kids' ire by putting a moratorium on goody bags. "We told the girls they were too old for them," says Cadby. "That seemed to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: $38,000 Kids' Birthday Parties? | 1/22/2007 | See Source »

...Cadby has another theory. "Maybe we realize our kids are only young for a short time and you want to capitalize on it," she says. "You think, 'I didn't have such a great birthday when I was young. I want my kid to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: $38,000 Kids' Birthday Parties? | 1/22/2007 | See Source »

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