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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Apple was a quiet Iranian film, released last year at the New York Film Festival. The documentary about twin 12-year old girls, imprisoned in their home from birth, took the world by surprise. The girls' father, their malevolent "protector," contends in the film that he is shielding his daughters from the forbidden fruit that will lure them away from the right path. The twins flounder, so developmentally and emotionally stunted that they can barely speak...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Iran Courts Threaten Freedom | 5/2/2000 | See Source »

...Beyond the usual allegations and denials, though, the case may contain some particular problems. Unless it can be proved that a vast right-wing conspiracy forced the Northrop Grumman staffers into lie under oath, it might be hard to convince the public that a group of pocket-protector-wearing techies had anything to gain by fabricating allegations. Adding to the administration's load are claims by the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, whose $90 million civil suit filed against the White House led to the DOJ investigation, that Justice took over the case simply to delay the civil action until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: E-Gate: More Trouble for Al and Hillary? | 3/24/2000 | See Source »

...price begins to jeopardize the U.S. economic expansion," says Baumohl, "we may have reached the point where the question becomes: Are we saving the Saudi royal family at the expense of the U.S. economy? That's prompting calls for some arm-twisting on OPEC - after all, as their effective protector and godfather, the U.S. has considerable leverage over countries like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leaning on the Oil Cartel Isn't As Easy As It Seems | 3/16/2000 | See Source »

...protector of Weed's sheep is a six-year-old llama named Cyrus, an animal best known for its thick, shaggy coat and its agility on narrow alpine trails. Here on the flatland expanse at the base of the snow-capped Bridger Mountains, the brown and white beast walks guard duty amid a sea of much smaller brown and white woolly bodies. Deceptively spry despite his goofy appearance, the llama struts and shuffles among the flock, craning his head from one side of the field to another while occasionally stopping to munch on grass clumps in the crusty, frozen earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BECKY WEED: The Best Coyote Defense Since the Road Runner | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

...Fleet Center, my editor pulls me aside. "I swear she's gonna get jumped," he warns. Yeah--I think--she doesn't know what she's getting herself in to. Suddenly, I feel a little cockier about this venture. Satisfied with my newly appointed role as The Protector, I sense some of my Harvardfeebleness melting away. I'm ready for some SmackDown...

Author: By Nate P. Gray, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Is the World Wrestling Federation spectacular theater or total trash? A WWF Die Hard's Account | 2/11/2000 | See Source »

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