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...Traffickers are loosely organized, investigators say, sometimes operating under the aegis of larger criminal organizations and sometimes working alone. At the point of contact-where women are first approached with an offer to travel or work abroad-recruiters are often former trafficking victims or others adept at gaining girls' trust. In Moldova, known recruiters include the daughter of a village priest and the wife of a policeman. They also routinely use classified ads in newspapers or on the Internet. "Jobs for girls without complexes, $800 a week," read one published not long ago in Makler, the Chisinau newspaper. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Human Slavery | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

...Manhattan office, with its sweeping views of Central Park, is a scandal of its own. After lowballing estimates for rent of the entire 56th floor (it's now about $800,000 per year), he presented himself, surprise, as a victim--this time of local real estate prices. He promised that his foundation would pick up $300,000, but any charity that profligate would itself be scandalous. Word is that the government is encouraging Clinton to move to a cheaper suite on a lower floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When a Buddy Movie Goes Bad | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

...mother encourages this reaction: "What I should pay you, five dollar, 10 dollar, then you come see me?" But Ruth has reasons to keep her mother at arm's length. Her father died in a hit-and-run accident when she was two, leaving her the sole spectator and victim of her widowed mother's bad temper and ominous threats ("Maybe I die soon!"). But now Ruth realizes that her mother is behaving erratically, even for her, and seems to be mentally fading away. A doctor confirms Ruth's fears, and she understands that she must act as "mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Joys And Sorrows Of Amy Tan | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

...defending it.'' Wrote the Detroit Free Press: "There's surely something wrong with a system that can't hold [Chrzanowski] accountable." The judge's supporters are few. In her own defense, Chrzanowski released a statement to TIME last week in which she claimed to be a victim of "media hype...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dial M for Misconduct | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

Meanwhile, the Muslim Jalals on the second floor are in turmoil because husband Ahmed, after years of proclaiming himself a religious freethinker, has been behaving like a mystic, leading his wife Arifa to worry that he is the victim of an evil eye. And unknown to all the adults in the building is the Asrani daughter Kavita's movie-besotted plan to elope with the Jalals' son Salim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seven New Voices | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

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