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...some Afghans, however, it may be too late. Among Samimi's other rape cases is 11-year-old Sweeta, whose attacker was protected by his employer, a local commander. The family's repeated attempts to bring the rapist to justice have been borne little fruit. In an interview with TIME this summer, President Karzai was told about Sweeta's case and promised to look into it, but Sweeta's sister Saleha had already given up on the government, and wondered if the past seven years of foreign intervention have brought any progress at all to Afghanistan. "If the Taliban were...
...Sweeta tucked her hands between her thighs and began to rock as she told her story. The details emerged in a monotone, her face expressionless. Last winter she had just stepped out of her house in Afghanistan's northern province of Jowzjan to fetch water from the well when a neighbor approached her. He told her that her father was ill and had been taken to the hospital. He offered her a ride. When she refused, he threw her into his car, his hand over her mouth so no one would hear her scream. He took her to a room...
...Sweeta's family knows that revealing the details of her ordeal may condemn her to an unmarried life marked by shame and poverty. But they are not seeking money, only justice. After six months of waiting for resolution, Sweeta's sister Saleha has given up on the government and is starting to wonder if the past seven years of foreign intervention have brought any progress at all to Afghanistan. "If the Taliban were still here, that rapist would have already been executed by now. It would have been a lesson for all," she says. "If there...
...passing out 100,000 paperback copies of How to Prepare for College. United Airlines uses paperback travel guides to whet tourist interest in the cities it serves. Colgate-Palmolive is giving out sports books as premiums in its shaving-cream kits, and Squibb is pushing its new artificial sweetener, Sweeta, by giving away a sugar-free cookbook with each bottle. The biggest book users are insurance companies and banks, which pass out Merriam-Webster's pocket dictionary, home medical guides and dozens of others to push salesmen into living rooms or to locate loan prospects...
Slimming Sweetener. A liquid, sugar-free food sweetener in a plastic, "squeeze-a-drop" bottle is being marketed for overweight and diabetic Americans by E. R. Squibb & Sons. Made from saccharin, Squibb's "Sweeta" can cut a 900-calorie dinner (soup, chicken en casserole, rice, peas, salad, chocolate-frosted cake) down to 550 calories. Price...
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