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...hard to listen to Jane Doe IV describe her marriage without hearing the sounds of a terrible crime. She recalled on the witness stand the moment when her new husband began undressing her. She begged that he not touch her. "'I can't do this. Please don't,'" she remembered saying. "I was sobbing. My whole entire body was shaking, and I was so scared ... He just laid me onto the bed and had sex. It hurt," she said. "And I felt evil." Later, she went into the bathroom, swallowed the contents of a couple of bottles of over...
...Zion National Park, along the Utah-Arizona border. It is typical for men to have three wives and about 30 children, though some have many more. Women wear their hair long and braided, their clothes modest. They will carry their iPods with them all day so they can listen to Jeffs' sermons. "Sister wives" share household chores and raise multitudes of children as their husbands rotate among bedrooms. It's virtually impossible for child-welfare officials to track levels of sexual abuse. When girls are ready to marry, they "turn themselves in" for the FLDS prophet to arrange a "celestial...
...democracy activists. But clapping handcuffs on Buddhist monks is a far more difficult proposition in this deeply devout nation. "The monks are the only ones who really have the trust of the people," says Khin Omar, an exiled dissident now living in Thailand. "When they speak up, people listen...
...It’s not necessary for [Summers] to be able to speak anywhere and everywhere,” Ryan, the Weary professor of German and comparative literature, wrote in an e-mailed statement. “Still, when all is said and done, we should be able to listen to views with which we don’t agree, and to debate them in a civil way.” Beren Professor of Economics N. Gregory Mankiw, a Summers supporter, called the decision to rescind the invitation “truly despicable...
...Senate hearings this week, McConnell was asked by Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, an advocate of the new law, whether the law, called the Protect America Act, helped with the German arrests. "Yes, sir. It did.... The ability to listen in on plotters.... allowed us to see and understand all the connections among members of the suspected terrorist cell," McConnell said. "Because we could understand it, we could help our partners through a long period of monitoring and observation." Critics, including several Congressmen, have argued that the most important intercepts in the German case were obtained before the updated...