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...Ophelia group consists of about 30 girls, two adult counselors and five or six mentors, who are one or two grades above the other girls and sometimes Ophelia graduates themselves. Teachers and administrators pick the participants, looking for girls who are aggressors, victims or enabling bystanders. The groups meet in 12 weekly sessions of 90 min. each. Most meetings begin with cooperation exercises such as forming hand-holding circles with all the girls' arms crisscrossing in the middle, and then trying to untangle without releasing hands. Sullen teens and tweens would not seem the best candidates for such an exercise...
...periodic raids in search of refugees from the North. She tried to hide, but two policemen discovered her. She was arrested and sent back to North Korea, where she was sentenced to three years in a labor camp. "We were so hungry in the camps that we used to pick up and eat the remains of apples that the guards had thrown away." After a year and a half, during which she says she was beaten and had the forced abortion, she was released under a special amnesty decree...
Goss told TIME last June that "virtually every day I can pick up a paper and find somebody who is an anonymous source. That is willful. And it seems to me there ought to be a penalty for that." McCarthy's firing shows that Goss is acting on that frustration. "Every person who works at the CIA signs a secrecy agreement," says CIA spokeswoman Jennifer Millerwise Dyck, who declined to identify the leaker. "This individual violated that agreement...
...shelter an estimated 200,000 monks, are reporting an influx of children whose parents feel the cloistered life is the best way to get their kids fed and educated. Others are spending what little money they have to court the gods. On the outskirts of Quanzhou, where locals pick tobacco leaves for a living, poor villagers have banded together to build a shrine to Kwanyin, the goddess of mercy. "We need her help," says farmer Zhou Bigong. "We work hard, but life is getting harder and harder." When Zhou was younger, openly worshiping Kwanyin wasn't allowed. Now, the goddess...
...jobs since September. Great results - but they were not enough, or soon enough, to prevent last fall's riots. "When you're trying to catch up on nearly 40 years of wasted time in five short years, it takes a while for the machine to start, warm up and pick up speed," says the Minister. "We're like a new business: it takes time for the first results to start showing." That's a motto that could apply to his own career. Unlike Villepin or Interior Minister and presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy, who have changed positions...