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That's one way of ensuring that no one ever has to go through an ordeal like hers again...
...faults aside, the panelists concurred that the film was faithful to the central truths of the crisis, accurately capturing President Kennedy's strong leadership throughout the entire ordeal...
...Prosecution is almost always problematic. Traffickers know that cases depend on victims testifying, so in places like Kosovo they are sure to give their women "contracts," written in English for the benefit of English-speaking U.N. police. Traumatized and deeply humiliated by their ordeal, most women fail to testify even when given the chance. One-third of the women "rescued" in Kosovo in a six-month period last year refused to incriminate their captors. Twice peacekeepers have raided a railside nightclub in the south central town of Ferizai, and twice they came up empty-handed after the girls failed...
...million people waiting to listen to it," he says. "But I think I've got better records in me." Success has made him a happy man-you need only watch him bound onto stage to know that-but Gray says his songs will still probe darker themes. "The ordeal that is living is exactly the same. The entire weight of our suffering day to day, if you want to get involved in it, remains identical...
...adult Amy has also made it through, at least so far, the peculiar ordeal of celebrity. It began after The Joy Luck Club ascended from the status of best seller to classic-in-embryo, when its author began facing demands to utter windy, geopolitical profundities. "People would ask me about trade sanctions in China. They'd ask me about the 1 million missing baby girls. I saw it as a great danger that people would see the book as some sort of template for how Chinese families are," she says. "To me, my family was the most weird entity...