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...public glimpse of what she sees as the "dirty little secret" of the booming town of St. George - the use of child labor, dubbed "mission work" by the FLDS, to outbid competing construction companies. Tyler worries that the number of "kids from the creek" is reaching critical mass. The expulsions and runaways continue. "They are living someone else's madness," Jensen said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Exiled Children of Utah | 9/24/2007 | See Source »

...Supreme Court that he would step down as chief of the army if he were elected. Many opposition politicians interpreted that as a threat: if he is not reelected, by whatever reason, be it a Supreme Court injunction, or a lack of quorum in Parliament brought about by a mass resignation, the declaration of martial law would be the next step...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Musharraf's Sign of Weakness | 9/24/2007 | See Source »

...lawyers, who had been instrumental in restoring Chaudhry to power, had announced a backup plan were the Supreme Court to declare Musharraf's candidacy legal. Nomination papers must be filed in person at the Electoral Commission by the 27th of September, and lawyer's groups had called for mass protests to block Musharraf's papers from being filed . "Musharraf's opponents made an announcement that they would put the Election Commission offices under siege," explains Senator Nisar Memon, Chair of the Senate Standing Committee on Defense. For that reason, they were detained. "They were going to turn the Election Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Musharraf's Sign of Weakness | 9/24/2007 | See Source »

...recent high rate of economic growth, about the reforms made within his country’s justice system and legislature, which have cracked down on corruption and human trafficking and emboldened free trade, and possibly even about Haiti. But he will probably not talk about bateyes, mass deportations, or the indentured servitude that chains thousands of Haitians to squalid conditions within the burgeoning sugar, banana, and coffee plantations of the emergent Dominican Republic...

Author: By Michael L. Zuckerman | Title: A Poor Example | 9/23/2007 | See Source »

Cambridge, Mass...

Author: By Adam R. Singerman | Title: Summer Program in Rio Full Of Diversity | 9/21/2007 | See Source »

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