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...dismissed it, saying there wasn't enough evidence. More likely, says Amruddin, there wasn't enough of a bribe. Amruddin says 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 »

Meanwhile, inventory continues to stockpile in Florida, creating a vicious cycle. Months pass as homes are foreclosed on, banks can't sell them, home prices stay low, and that sets off even more foreclosures. A report released earlier this month showed that it takes longer to sell a house in the south Florida market than in any other metropolitan area in the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Local Help for Besieged Homeowners | 8/15/2008 | See Source »

...maintained in the house's present rebirth as Paradise Road Tintagel Colombo, www.tintagelcolombo.com - a luxury hotel and restaurant opened in 2007 by Colombo designer and homeware retailer Udayshanth Fernando. "I'm a very close friend of Sunethra Bandaranaike," says Fernando, referring to the elder daughter, who had planned to sell off the furniture and rent the house to a foreign embassy. "I said: 'Why don't you rent it to me?' She spoke to her brother and sister and there we went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family Jewel | 8/14/2008 | See Source »

...Krause says men are reluctant to go to a drugstore cashier with a box of small-size condoms - for obvious reasons. His solution: he plans to sell his new line of different-size condoms online. "Men on the Web," he says, "they are very honest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spray-On Condoms: Still a Hard Sell | 8/13/2008 | See Source »

...though, the focus is on touring relentlessly. A few hours after Hutz's shopping expedition, a 5,000 person sell-out crowd roars its approval as the band strikes up Zina Marina and Hutz struts across the stage in stilettos and his blonde wig. Two hours of frenzied gypsy folk, punk, dub, flamenco, whatever, later, and the audience is ecstatic. But Hutz wants more. People are always asking, he says, why he jumps from project to project, why his life is "such a nonstop thing. But then I'll read something about Leonardo da Vinci or Charlie Chaplin or Michelangelo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Immigrant Punk: Eugene Hutz | 8/13/2008 | See Source »

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