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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...With his winnings, Paik bought new clothes, new shoes, an iPod, a 27-inch TV, a DVD player and a snowboard—“all these things I kind of wanted with this type of cash falling into my lap...

Author: By Dan R. Rasmussen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Growing Gambling Problem | 4/11/2006 | See Source »

...photograph from the sleepy suburb of Belmont, Mass., circa 1963 shows two people who would later be famous, although nobody had any idea at the time. One is a tiny baby sitting in his mother's lap. The other is a smiling, tough-looking, pompadoured fellow standing behind her. The baby would grow up to be Sebastian Junger, the mega-selling author of The Perfect Storm, the true story of a fishing boat lost at sea. The smiling guy was a handyman named Albert DeSalvo. History would come to know him as the Boston Strangler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Murderer in the Home | 4/3/2006 | See Source »

...western media lap up the sob stories dished out by apologists for the jihadists vowing destruction of everything un-Islamic on the face of the earth? Attorney Gitanjali Gutierrez, arguing the case of detainee al-Qahtani, is obviously an interested party. Otherwise she would not have gone fishing for the kind of information she dishes out to gullible liberal media. She has been conditioned to use anything she can find against the government and paint al-Qahtani as an innocent victim, no matter what the truth is. Why doesn't Time get stories from those who are on the receiving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 4/3/2006 | See Source »

...This is not a lap dance in Las Vegas, but a revered Balinese custom known as the joged bumbung, or bamboo dance. Yet it is one of hundreds of traditions across the Indonesian archipelago that could be banned under legislation being deliberated by the national parliament. The bill, which is supported by several Muslim parties, would render illegal any behavior or images that might be considered sexually provocative. Women who bare their shoulders or legs, or artists who use nudity in their work, could be prosecuted for indecency and fined up to 2 billion rupiah (about $220,000) or even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia's Skin Wars | 4/3/2006 | See Source »

...obtain information from prisoners by denying them basic human rights and decency, then we are no better than the very organizations we are fighting. Against whom will the abusive interrogation techniques be used next - hardened criminals, drug dealers and political activists? Gilbert Laraque Miami Why do the Western media lap up the sob stories dished out by apologists for the jihadists vowing destruction of everything un-Islamic on the face of the earth? Attorney Gitanjali Gutierrez, arguing the case of detainee al-Qahtani, is obviously an interested party. Otherwise she would not have gone fishing for the kind of information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Gathering Storm | 3/28/2006 | See Source »

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