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...increased by more than 30 times over the past four years to $13 million - a fact she puts down to generous supporters who have showered her with gifts of jewelry, art and cash. Her aides say that the gifts are all fully recorded and accounted for, and stopped the moment she became Chief Minister. "These are absolutely bulls___ allegations," says Mishra. "She is not guilty of anything." (Mayawati declined numerous requests for an interview with TIME...
...family way: commissioning artistic photographs of themselves, having their bellies cast in plaster and paying for 3-D sonograms that they frame or bind in prebaby albums. Says Jennifer Loomis, who has photographed nearly 2,000 pregnant women from all over the country: "People are looking to capture this moment in their lives because it's so fleeting...
...landed at college a few years later, at the very moment the number of female undergraduates nationally reached parity with that of men--though my school was still 3-to-2 male. Like my peers, I suspect, for every pterodactyl who thought I had no business being there, I found three gentle mentors who smoothed...
...hold it to account. The unfolding battle for its political soul, however, is a test for the whole continent. Will its rulers stand by the principles they have signed up to, or will Mugabe's personal stature and his anti-Western rhetoric trump these principles? This is a defining moment not just for Zimbabwe but for Africa...
...will be upon China, as tourists and television viewers from every country tune in. Hundreds of world leaders, including President Bush, will be in attendance. Medals will be won, records will be broken, and nations will rally around their Olympic heroes. But for democracies worldwide, it will be a moment of shame. By attending the Olympics, they will be tacitly endorsing China’s autocratic government, abuse of its own people, and its unsavory alliances. The United States should take a stand against China’s egregious behavior by boycotting the Olympic Games...