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...RALPH, one of four ministers who oversaw weeks of intensive counseling for disgraced evangelical leader Ted Haggard, who admitted to improprieties involving a male prostitute...
...imperialists,'' said one. ''You are a dirty exploiter of workers and peasants,'' shouted another. ''You are a counterrevolutionary,'' yelled a third. To show their impatience, they pushed me from one guard to another like a ball in a game. I became dizzy and breathless. A young male guard grabbed the lapels of my padded jacket, pulled me toward him and gave me a hard push. I staggered backward and hit the wall. He did this several times. All the while, the other guards continued to shout at me. My ears were ringing, my head was splitting and my body...
...accepted part of public life, Yanagisawa's comments touched a nerve among Japanese women. The country's fertility rate is just 1.29, one of the lowest in the world, which puts Japan on a course for depopulation over the next several decades. Japanese women are regularly harangued by mostly male politicians to help slow the population decline by bearing more children - even though getting married and having a baby often means sacrificing their career and their independence, even...
...interviews in miniskirts, as a rule, and I try to be sensitive to indigenous customs. But what if local tradition means ignoring my presence altogether? I once conducted an interview in northern Afghanistan with a formerly Taliban-aligned warlord, who refused to speak directly to me, forcing my male colleague to repeat my questions on my behalf. (Conversely, talking to women in conservative Muslim societies is easier for me than it is for male reporters...
...with me because of my gender. A more liberal underling was sent in his place. He declined to shake my hand but was intellectually curious and appeared to relish the occasional tough question. "She's a feisty one, isn't she," he commented to TIME's Malaysia stringer, a male. Our stringer gave a noncommittal shrug. Back in Makassar, Tatap and I took Ikhwan's sermon without protest. Sometimes even flowers have to pretend they are jewels...