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...just didn't see where she had gained much by trying to run. Plus I had nobody to contact for help. The night my father told me [that I would be married], he made me sleep in my mother's room. I never was allowed out of their sight the entire time until the marriage took place [a few days later]. So I wasn't even able to tell my younger sister I was getting married and what was happening to me because they wouldn't allow it. I couldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Polygamy Survivor Carolyn Jessop | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

Overlaying a female torso with a world map made for a most intriguing cover image. My teenage son and adult husband were particularly taken with the latitudes around Nepal. Pun intended? An eye-opening story, in more ways than one. As a wife and mother, I appreciate the coverage. Melissa Noebes, CANTON...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Every Nation's Race for a Cure | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

...decision to have every school in France stage annual Oct. 22 readings of the letter written by 17-year-old Resistance member Guy Môquet penned to his family shortly before his Nazi captors executed him in 1941. The letter begins with a tender call to "My dearest Mother, my beloved little brother, my beloved father", informing them, "I'm going to die!". It ends with the selfless and uplifting, "Of course I would have preferred to live. But what I want with all my heart is for my death to serve some purpose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A French Debate over Guy Môquet | 10/23/2007 | See Source »

...punished by the god Demeter for cutting down a sacred tree. Demeter sics an excitingly creepy Hunger (Sara L. Wright ’09) on the king. As Wright quite literally clings to Greaves, his character descends into a starvation-induced madness, eating everything in sight and selling his mother into slavery when the money runs out. Erysichthon doesn’t think it’s so funny, of course, especially not the part where he eats his own foot...

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Metamorphoses’ Makes a Splash | 10/22/2007 | See Source »

...main point of their sermon. Huckabee used that rhythm as well with a story about the early 20th century evangelist Billy Sunday. And then he got down to business. Zinging his opponents, Huckabee said that social conservatives need a candidate who speaks "the language of Zion as a mother tongue." And challenging the Christian Right leaders who are lining up behind Romney and, to a lesser extent, candidates like Fred Thompson, he urged: "Let us not sacrifice our principles for anybody's politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Huckabee's Bid for the Christian Right | 10/22/2007 | See Source »

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