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...allows a man to have four wives. A trafficker "will marry four, he will take them to Syria, it's legal, and divorce them there, and he comes back and does it again. How can we stop it?" Salim says. Similarly, the principle of temporary marriages, known as al-Mut'a in Shi'ite Islam and al-Misyar in Sunni Islam (they can extend anywhere from two hours to six months in the Shi'ite tradition), has also been exploited to trade in women. The draft law does not address how victims are trafficked, avoiding the sensitive subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Iraq Crack Down on Sex Trafficking? | 4/13/2009 | See Source »

...seven stormy years for the 52 year-old, Israel-born CEO, who earned the nickname "the Teflon manager." But his departure hasn't automatically solved the problems at Telekom - and it may have back- fired politically for Schröder. Telekom board member Hel-mut Sihler was nam-ed to succeed Sommer for six months while a permanent successor is sought. Sihler, 72, a former chairman of the Henkels chemical group, is joined by Gerd Tenzer, head of Telekom's network division, as deputy. Board chairman Hans-Dietrich Winkhaus promised a "very radical consolidation" at the company. Deutsche Telekom shares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrong Numbers | 7/21/2002 | See Source »

...stamps and stationary the store carries. It is the latest in a family of stores in the greater Boston area, including one on Boston’s Charles Street with the same name and the “Museum of Useful Things”—called MUT for short—on Broadway Street in Cambridge...

Author: By Lesley W. Ma, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Quirky Gift Shop Opens in Square | 4/2/2002 | See Source »

...country's first -- and perhaps last -- free elections on March 18. No one has campaigned with more gusto than West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who was in the city of Erfurt last week. When he was introduced as "the Chancellor of our German Fatherland," chants of "Hel-MUT! Hel- MUT!" rose from 100,000 citizens massed in the town square. "We are one Germany!" Kohl declared. "We are one people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Germanys Waiting for the Magic Words | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

...Tutmania palls, can Treasures II be far behind? Well, even now, archaeologists are excavating the 2,000-year-old temple of the goddess Mut, but it may be 25 years before its contents are ready for Mutmania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Tutglut | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

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