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...common. But before the war, in big cities like Baghdad and Basra, and especially on their university campuses, young Iraqis could have romantic liaisons and aspire to marry for love, even if that meant crossing the sectarian divide. Among the educated classes, Shi'ite-Sunni unions were not frowned upon. It was even possible to date: in Baghdad, courting couples, often accompanied by a chaperone, would meet at fruit-juice kiosks or ice-cream parlors or in one of the restaurants along the banks of the Tigris. Premarital sex was rare, but the more adventurous lovers would arrange trysts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Romance, Baghdad Style | 7/2/2007 | See Source »

...improve upon the blurb written by Grady Hendrix of the Subway Cinema collective, the NYAFF's producers and programmers: "A vertiginous slide down a swirling toilet bowl of bad taste, Aachi & Ssipak ... has repulsed movie critics and delighted audiences around the world. Not since the animated anti-authoritarian head trips of Ralph Bakshi has a movie done so much so quickly: within the first reel it's dispensed more ultra-violence than a thousand action films, annihilated all boundaries of good taste and bent numerous intellectual properties (like Batman) over the table and violated them so gleefully they may never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rats! Poo! Duck! | 6/30/2007 | See Source »

...every song played on their streams. Additionally, each Internet radio station would have to pay a $500 fee per channel to SoundExchange, the organization that collects royalty fees, a provision that opponents say would be disastrous to companies who use the Internet's virtually unlimited space to create hundreds upon hundreds of very specific music channels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Stand of Internet Radio? | 6/30/2007 | See Source »

...liters of gasoline, commercially-sold canisters of cooking gas, and large quantity of nails packed into the two Mercedes found by police in London before their deadly cargo could be detonated. He adds that store-bought gas cylinders used as charges packed within nails acting as shrapnel upon detonation was the technique favored during the 1995-96 bombing campaign in France by Algeria's radical Armed Islamic Group - the first time jihadist terror struck Europe. "Use of the nails and the size of the explosion that would have occurred makes it clear the intent was very definitely to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain's Burst of Terror | 6/30/2007 | See Source »

...though she’s installed new hardware before—her handiwork with the Owls helped Temple to a 16-4 mark last year and a second-place finish in the Atlantic-10 conference—her level of excitement upon hearing of the appointment was of a different magnitude than three years...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Green Readies for Women's Tennis' Lead Role | 6/29/2007 | See Source »

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