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<DIV><SPAN class=3Dheadline><FONT face=3D"Courier New">This is a great comm=
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<DIV><SPAN class=3Dheadline><FONT face=3D"Courier New">melanie</FONT></SPAN=
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<DIV><FONT face=3DTahoma><SPAN class=3Dheadline><B>Sex Slaves of West 43<SU=
P>rd</SUP> Street</B></SPAN><BR></FONT><FONT size=3D2><FONT face=3DTahoma><=
STRONG><FONT color=3D#808080><SPAN class=3Dsubhead>The <EM>New York Times M=
agazine </EM>gets carried away in its investigation.</SPAN><BR></FONT></STR=
ONG><SPAN class=3DclsBioLink>By Jack Shafer</SPAN><BR></FONT></FONT><F=
ONT size=3D1><FONT face=3DTahoma><SPAN class=3DclsSmaller>Posted Monday, Ja=
n. 26, 2004, at 3:59 PM PT </SPAN><BR><BR></DIV></FONT></FONT>
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<TD><A><FONT face=3DTahoma size=3D1><IMG height=3D183 alt=3D"New York Times=
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R></TBODY></TABLE>If just one person sold another into sex slavery in the U=
nited States, I would call upon the great guns of the <EM>New York Times</E=
M> to pulverize the slave master's quarters with tens of thousands of words=
, to reload, and then fire again. So I applaud journalist/novelist/screenwr=
iter <A href=3D"http://www.mcleanbooks.com/gallery/artistinfo.php?artist=3D=
2391" target=3D_blank><FONT color=3D#0066cc>Peter Landesman</FONT></A> and =
the editors of the <EM>New York Times</EM> <EM>Magazine </EM>for investigat=
ing the issue with the cover story, "<A href=3D"http://www.nytimes.com/2004=
/01/25/magazine/25SEXTRAFFIC.html?pagewanted=3Dprint&position=3D" targe=
t=3D_blank><FONT color=3D#0066cc>The Girls Next Door</FONT></A>," in this S=
unday's (Jan. 25) issue. Landesman convinces me that sex slavery exists in =
the United States by citing a successful prosecution of sex slavers and wit=
h his vivid description of a Plainfield, N.J., police raid on a house where=
four Mexican women between the ages of 14 and 17 were held captive and for=
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