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...started on the job because of her willingness to put her life on the line - with 12 stitches in her heard as proof of it. In late 2003, as lawlessness gripped the city in the wake of the U.S. invasion, five burglars broker into her home late one night and demanded to know where the money was. Odhaib fought. Amid the initial struggle she managed to edge her husband and two children out of the room and alone faced the intruders. Odhaib clawed the masks off three before they managed to get her by the hair and bludgeon her with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mother Teresa of Baghdad | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...Despite Malaysia's choreographed political system, Abdullah is something of an accidental Prime Minister. His iron-fisted predecessor, Mahathir Mohamad, who ruled for 22 years, discarded three potential political heirs before settling on Abdullah in 2003. He was everything Mahathir was not: affable, cautious, nonthreatening. In the wake of several corruption scandals involving some of Mahathir's closest associates, it also helped that Abdullah was regarded as Mr. Clean. Nevertheless, many in Malaysia saw the now 68-year-old as a transitional figure, a placeholder until UMNO found someone more visionary. In January, Mahathir even claimed that he had picked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lowered Expectations | 2/28/2008 | See Source »

...wake up 15 minutes early and meditate before class?” Page asks. “Or try fasting...

Author: By Nini S. Moorhead, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mem. Church’s New Mission | 2/28/2008 | See Source »

...details emerged under the eyes of a morbidly fascinated public. Teena was often erroneously referred to a lesbian, who had taken on a male identity to avoid the stigma of dating women as a female. Perhaps the most striking aspect of the reaction was how, in the wake of a murder prompted by the urge to punish the transgression of gender roles, no one could resist the urge to somehow fit Teena into some kind of explainable category...

Author: By Juliet S. Samuel | Title: Boys Will Be Boys | 2/27/2008 | See Source »

...WAKE UP AND SMELL THE...TOILETS...

Author: By Julia M. Spiro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Scrambling to Serve | 2/27/2008 | See Source »

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