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...Quite simply, say the faithful?known as tantrics?Kali looks after those who look after her, bringing riches to the poor, revenge to the oppressed and newborn joy to the childless. So far this year, police have recorded at least one case of ritual killing a month. In January, in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, a 24-year-old woman hacked her three-year-old son to death after a tantric sorcerer supposedly promised unlimited earthly riches. In February, two men in the eastern state of Tripura beheaded a woman on the instructions of a deity they said appeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Killing for 'Mother' Kali | 7/22/2002 | See Source »

...woman and she was very talented, but she always had trouble keeping in touch with her kids,” Kessler said. “It was so hard for her because she was working 100-plus hours a week, while also trying to make time for her nine-year-old daughter...

Author: By Angie Marek, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Wedding Planners | 4/18/2002 | See Source »

...they received no severance pay after the plant went bankrupt and merged with a private company, so they took over the factory two years ago. Police tried to force them out; workers from Wang's factory joined in to keep the siege going. Recently, both factories were shut down. Shi Jian, the ceramics factory workers' leader, went into hiding after receiving threats to his life. In February 1999, he returned home to visit his nine-year-old son. Unknown assailants savagely beat him, fracturing his skull with steel bars and plunging knives into both legs. Today a jagged red scar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Working Man Blues | 3/24/2002 | See Source »

...they create, littered with references to their beloved Boston and Ireland, to find the evidence. “For Boston, for Boston we sing our proud refrain” begins their upbeat rendition of the Boston College fight song. During a couple of numbers on Saturday night, a nine-year-old fan even waved an American flag on stage...

Author: By Sarah L. Solorzano, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Murphys: No Rock Stars Allowed | 3/22/2002 | See Source »

...from his mind. He points out with approval that Saudi Arabia's religious leaders have begun to tone down their rhetoric, which is often strewn with anti-American and anti-Semitic rants. There is no sign that he plans democracy any time soon, beyond the Kingdom's nine-year-old, 120-member appointed national assembly. His bottom line is that change will come, but at a Saudi pace. "It is more rational to change gradually," he explains. "There is less disruption to the social balance. We are blessed that we can afford gradual and continuous change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Bring Change to the Kingdom | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

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