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...winking at both the old notion of femininity and the aging precepts of feminism. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (in her fifth season on the WB) saves her classmates from Evil, when she's not cracking a book or a joke. The Cartoon Network's Powerpuff Girls, "the most elite kindergarten crime-fighting force ever assembled," protect Townsville with their magical powers. Max, the bionic babe on Fox's Dark Angel, occasionally lets a mere man help her save the world, after which she suavely extracts herself from his adoration. "What's the plan?" asks her enraptured swain of the moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Go Ahead, Make Her Day | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...winking at both the old notion of femininity and the aging precepts of feminism. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (in her fifth season on the WB) saves her classmates from Evil, when she's not cracking a book or a joke. The Cartoon Network's Powerpuff Girls, "the most elite kindergarten crime-fighting force ever assembled," protect Townsville with their magical powers. Max, the bionic babe on Fox's "Dark Angel," occasionally lets a mere man help her save the world, after which she suavely extracts herself from his adoration. "What's the plan?" asks her enraptured swain of the moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Go Ahead, Make Her Day | 3/18/2001 | See Source »

...democratically elected President in three decades, he has shown a knack for picking fights. Says Taufik Abdullah, an expert on Indonesian history: "He has been making enemies from Day One, and I don't think it had to be this way." First, Wahid jeeringly referred to parliament as a "kindergarten"?and never apologized. Months later, he removed several ministers belonging to the three largest parties in his coalition government, without explaining why. Then, in May of last year when Wahid was first linked to the charges of corruption?the alleged embezzlement of $4.1 million from a state-run pension fund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bad Omens | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

...separated mother in middle-class New Delhi, Shobha Batra struggled to make ends meet. She worked as a nurse, helped run the family's kindergarten and spent hours cleaning, cooking and looking after her six-year-old. She needed someone to help out, but worried that a man in the house could be dangerous and a woman might bring home boyfriends. Far better, and cheaper, she decided, to buy a child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Domestics | 2/4/2001 | See Source »

...doctor diagnosed a severe concussion. Then, gathering a furious crowd of neighbors, the family went to the police. Faced with an angry mob, Batra and her brother were arrested after eyewitnesses confirmed that the child was abused and overworked, forced to do the cleaning for the household and kindergarten. If the little girl complained, she got a thrashing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Domestics | 2/4/2001 | See Source »

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