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...venial sin that would never have come to light except that in February Whole Foods made a $565 million play to buy Wild Oats--the very company rahodeb so soundly dissed online--and while reviewing the bid, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) turned up what would, if this were a spy thriller, be known as the Rahodeb Identity. The FTC is seeking to halt the deal on basic antitrust grounds--it claims that a union of the two companies would produce an organic-foods quasi-monopoly. The government may also be examining whether Mackey, in his double life, revealed information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Price of Anonymity | 7/19/2007 | See Source »

When Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana confessed to "a very serious sin" on Monday night, Debra Jean Palfrey was not about to forgive him. Sin is one thing; but Palfrey believes Vitter - a proponent of the "sanctity of marriage" - should fess up if that sin was a crime as well. After all, she notes, prostitution is a legal offense for both purveyor and consumer. And as the so-called "D.C. Madam" whose escort service Vitter says he used, Palfrey says the agency she ran was merely one-half of the alleged equation. "Why am I the only person being prosecuted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Senator Vitter Get Hustled? | 7/10/2007 | See Source »

...which point, Vitter's press secretary told TIME it would receive a statement. Instead, Vitter's office rushed a press release to the Associated Press identifying him as a one-time client of the escort service. The AP has said that Vitter's statement on his "very serious sin" was made to its New Orleans office at the senator's own initiative, not in response to a query from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Senator Vitter Get Hustled? | 7/10/2007 | See Source »

...Vitter emerged as a strong supporter of Marriage Protection Ammendment, a proposed constitutional amendment that emerged in reaction to the push for the right of gays to marry. It defined marriage as being between a man and a woman. On Monday, Vitter indicated that his marriage had survived his sin, which lay in the past. Vitter said, "Several years ago, I asked for and received forgiveness from God and my wife in confession and marriage counseling. Out of respect for my family, I will keep my discussion of the matter there with God and them. But I certainly offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Senator Vitter Get Hustled? | 7/10/2007 | See Source »

...quietly. I was on hand to interview the headmistress of the women's madrasah and got into a discussion with her translator, Umma Aman, 22, a pretty seminary student. Aman talked about the source of the students' anger, saying that if the government wouldn't cleanse the capital of sin, they would. "A man goes to medical school and becomes a doctor," says Aman. "We go to a madrasah, so we must practice Islam. We must act on God's will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard From Islamabad | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

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