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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...band TLC, was caused by another woman's carrying Usher's baby. "My chick on the side said she got one on the way," the hip-hop heartthrob croons on the CD. Usher's publicist insists there is no baby and denies speculation that the controversy was hatched to whip up publicity. Stunt or not, Usher is expected to deliver Confessions to No. 1 on the Billboard chart this week. We're sure he's a proud papa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Usher's Baby Blues | 4/5/2004 | See Source »

...perpetrating it. So it was not a conventional expression of religious freedom when, last week, thousands of Shiite men took to the streets of Karbala, Iraq, to do something that the Baathi leader had made illegal for over two decades—beat, whip and knife themselves until their faces and clothing were drenched in blood...

Author: By Nathan Burstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Passion’ in Context | 3/12/2004 | See Source »

...magnitude of the event by exhibiting the individuals’ relative irrelevance. Furthermore, every aspect of the persecution becomes a multi-sensory experience, as each lashing is accompanied by a vivid shower of crimson and unnerving sound effects. At one point, a Roman soldier flagellates Christ with a whip of broken metal tips, the shards embedded and then ripped from his torso. As this is done, numerous close-ups of the resulting cuts are accompanied with the squelch of tearing skin, amplified to a horrendous volume...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FILM REVIEW | 3/5/2004 | See Source »

...magnitude of the event by exhibiting the individuals’ relative irrelevance. Furthermore, every aspect of the persecution becomes a multi-sensory experience, as each lashing is accompanied by a vivid shower of crimson and unnerving sound effects. At one point, a Roman soldier flagellates Christ with a whip of broken metal tips, the shards embedded and then ripped from his torso. As this is done, numerous close-ups of the resulting cuts are accompanied with the squelch of tearing skin, amplified to a horrendous volume...

Author: By Ben B. Chung and Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Film Review of The Passion of Christ | 3/5/2004 | See Source »

...couldn't stretch out. Air entered from a pipe in the ceiling, but there was no light. On his first night, he was pulled out of the cell, blindfolded and led to a room where he was strapped to a column. Two men, he says, beat him with a whip, then smashed his head against the column. He says that beatings took place nightly, and that he sometimes heard the screams of women. Neighbors of Qisme Ibrahim al-Quraishi say she turned up dead 10 days after she was arrested for letting prostitutes use her home. When her family cleaned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Islamic Justice: The Religious Militia Muscles In | 3/1/2004 | See Source »

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