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...sordid traffic touches nearly every part of Asia. But Thailand and India in particular serve as hubs of the flesh trade: exporters and importers of children and adults on a massive scale. An estimated 7,000 Nepalese children are smuggled into India each year to join the sex industry. In the age of AIDS, children increasingly earn the biggest profits. With a girl's virginity selling for as much as $3,500 in Bangkok, recurring recessions have ensured a ready supply of daughters sold by poverty-stricken families. The number of child prostitutes in Thailand is at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shame | 2/4/2002 | See Source »

Just one year ago, Benjamin Bratt was playing an accessory on Julia Roberts' red-carpet tour. Now he's commanding his own spotlight with a revelatory performance in Pinero. In this sordid, vibrant and true story, Bratt stars as Miguel Pinero, the Puerto Rican playwright, unrehabilitated ex-con, junkie and cautionary figure. In 1988, 14 years after founding Manhattan's Nuyorican Poets Cafe and gathering acclaim for his Tony-nominated play Short Eyes, Pinero died of cirrhosis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Benjamin Bratt | 1/21/2002 | See Source »

...Line’s distinctly upscale ambiance couldn’t be farther from the T’s sometimes sordid motif...

Author: By Justin D. Gest, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Bar Opens in Old Home of Crimson Sports Grille | 1/11/2002 | See Source »

...times. You can watch the keynotes, order products and subject yourself to a barrage of ads online. "The whole point is to get the f___ out of the office," one Comdex veteran told me. That may be true, but even the week's most decadent moments seemed sadly sordid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Escape From Comdex | 11/14/2001 | See Source »

...from Ana, a Portuguese-African colonial subject, leads Willie into a relationship with the woman in her home country, a colony modeled on Mozambique. Willie stays there some 18 years, during which he never quite blends into the lives of either the Africans or the Portuguese. He has a sordid affair with Graça, a married woman equally hot for him. Meanwhile, anti-colonialist guerrillas edge closer to independence and toward forcing cultural hybrids like Ana and Willie to choose sides...

Author: By Graeme Wood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nobel Prize Winner's Newest: 'Half A Life' | 11/9/2001 | See Source »

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