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...almost too easy for a girl to get by on the streets of Tokyo. Grown men are eager to wine and dine or entertain them at all-night karaoke joints. And if they need more cash, girls know they possess a marketable commodity. It's a crime to sell your body in Japan, but the law is widely ignored. Young girls know how to get sex dates through Internet sites they access on their cell phones. In Tokyo, countless sex shops openly market minors for anything from a grope to intercourse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teenage Wasteland | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

...What the Alliance does possess is an intimate knowledge of the terrain, a visceral hatred of the opponent and a war-honed knack for exploiting Taliban vulnerability. "These folks are aggressive," U.S. Marine General Peter Pace said Wednesday. "They're taking the war to their enemy?and ours." For the Alliance, the war's critical turn came early this month when U.S. B-52s began hammering Taliban front lines dug in near Mazar and Kabul and further north, along the Tajik border. Despite U.S. frustration with the Alliance's sluggishness, the complexity of waging war in an alien, booby-trapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Afghan Way of War | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

While the Elis possess a strong pass offense, their running game has struggled all year. Due to a combination of injuries and ineffective play, no Yale running back has established himself as a legitimate threat. In fact, Hyland is the team’s third leading rusher despite playing in only three complete games all season...

Author: By Elijah M. Alper, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Perfection Sought in Imperfect Place | 11/15/2001 | See Source »

...feel socially excluded, feel free to hate them, just as you would hate the frat that rejected you. Just don’t give them more credit than they deserve by conferring upon them an importance that they don’t possess...

Author: By Maggie Morgan, | Title: Final Clubs Are Not 'All That' | 11/14/2001 | See Source »

While the Elis possess a strong pass offense, their running game has struggled all year. Due to a combination of injuries and ineffective play, no Yale running back has established himself as a legitimate threat. In fact, Hyland is the team’s third leading rusher despite playing in only three complete games all season...

Author: By Elijah M. Alper, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard, Yale to Clash in 118th Game | 11/14/2001 | See Source »

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