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...that in order to raise enough money for all the necessary bribes, he sold his two other daughters, ages 9 and 11, for $5,000. "I had to sell them in order to pursue this case," he says. "What else can I do? I am not a pimp, a coward, to let these men get away with what they did. I will sell all of my children if that is what it takes to get justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan's Epidemic of Child Rape | 8/17/2008 | See Source »

...York's Cafe Society to Hollywood's Little Troc, she and her daughter crossed most of the boundaries set up by racial discrimination. Sailing on ''every ship of the French Line,'' they mingled offstage with the celebrities Lena had enchanted onstage in London and Paris --the Laurence Oliviers, Noel Coward, Yves Montand, Edith Piaf--until Lena herself became a name to drop. The pools of Hollywood opened up to Lena when she became one of the first black film stars to escape the costume of a maid's uniform, in Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather. John Barrymore kissed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DANCING PARTNERS OF CHIC THE HORNES: AN AMERICAN FAMILY by Gail Lumet Buckley; Knopf; 262 pages; $18.95 | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

...often play characters that are so awkward, they make people uncomfortable. Do you ever make yourself uncomfortable? Carrie Coward Bucher TONGANOXIE, KANS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Steve Carell | 6/19/2008 | See Source »

...coward,” she said, her nakedness magnificent against the room’s shadows. “Even now, with all that expensive port and cheap sentiment swimming inside you, you still can’t take me. Or have you forgotten how it’s done...

Author: By Lesley R. Winters, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Stable Boy | 4/14/2008 | See Source »

Officials denounced Thursday's attack with strong language. "Whoever the coward was that committed this disgraceful act on our city will be found and prosecuted to the full extent of the law," New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg told reporters at a press conference Thursday morning. "We will not tolerate such attacks." Army Captain Charles Jaquillard, commander of recruiting in Manhattan, told the Associated Press, "If it is something that's directed toward American troops, then it's something that's taken very seriously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does New York Have a Serial Bomber? | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

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