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...pepper trees, and to make lemonade from my own lemon tree." While B.P. rode herd over Cecil B. De Mille and Ernst Lubitsch, Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich, the teenage Budd enjoyed the attention of his father's sexy stars. Clara Bow, the It Girl of silent pictures, ran her fingers through the boy's hair and even suggested they go out partying. (Flashback 1973: TIME Cover - Marlon Brando...
...hands is to create jobs for the heads of households." In other words: men. In 2008, Lee considered dissolving the government's Ministry of Gender Equality, established in 2002 to promote women's rights, into the Health and Welfare Ministry, a move that he backed off from when it ran up against criticism. (See 50 essential travel tips...
...stinging smell of the chemicals used still hangs in the air. A few houses down, Ethel Gill points to nine bullet holes that have been punched into the top story of her home: "They threw rocks and bricks at us. Then they opened fire. We cowered for safety and ran away, jumping over roofs of other houses. We eventually found sanctuary in a church." She shows the remains of her Urdu-language Bible: "Look at our holy book. The pages are all burnt. Is this not desecration?" (See pictures of the ethnic rivalries beneath the surface of Pakistan...
...woke up—an hour later than planned. I ran with hair flying and reporter notebook pages as askew as my rumpled skirt, dashing through the metro tunnels out into the (possibly) blinding sunlight. I knew all about the dangers of “solar maculopathy” and was determined to not make eye contact with my subject—and usually, archnemesis—the sun. A hotline had been established in Hong Kong for the symptoms of eye damage—blurred vision, holes in visual field, afterimages, and reddened perception. Most people didn?...
...situation as dual nationals had become more precarious in the aftermath of the presidential election. State media had already placed the source of the trouble outside of the country. The news for days ran footage of "voluntary" confessions by local citizens led astray by foreign elements, the latter typically Iranians operating out of the U.K. (the British had been cast as the lead villain this time around). As a kharaji, or foreigner, who had arrived on a flight from London shortly before the vote, I fit the profile of the state's narrative too well. The machinery had little choice...