The Economist (US), February 10th, 1990
The canonisation of Genghis
GENGHIS KHAN was a thoughtful husband and a good father. He was married at 15, and though his was an arranged union designed to placate two quarrelling families, he seems to have grown fond of his bride, called Burte. Shortly after their marriage she was kidnapped and had a child by another man. Genghis apparently shrugged his shoulders when he was reunited with Burte, and said that it was not her fault that Mongolia had a kidnapping problem. He accepted the child, a boy, into his family. The boy grew up to be a general, and everyone said he had done rather well....
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