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...campaign stunt. But not in Peru. President Alberto Fujimori on Thursday raced around Lima with an escort of special forces troops, leading a house-to-house search for his disgraced former intelligence chief, Vladimiro Montesinos. Montesinos had earlier this week flown home following a failed bid for political asylum in Panama. The release last month of a videotape showing him bribing an opposition legislator to support President Fujimori had precipitated a political crisis that forced the strongman president to call new elections early next year in which he promised...
...play tells the story of Mary Girard, a real woman who, in the 1790's, was placed in an asylum by her husband. Throughout the piece, author Lanie Robertson asks "Is Mary Girard truly insane?" The seeming insanity of the Furies, figments of Mary's imagination, conflict with her seeming reason as she questions her fate. It is up to the audience to decide...
Throughout the play the audience is horrified by the asylum, and shocked at the idea that people would come and gawk at the poor inmates. But by the end, the audience has become the people peering in the windows to see the lunatics, making for an uncomfortable feeling after the show...
...disability-rights advocates. "In general, the international community has failed to recognize that the abuses against people with disabilities are pervasive and constitute international human-rights violations," says Eric Rosenthal, executive director of Mental Disability Rights International. But the new doorway to America has its critics, who counter that asylum laws were not intended for the disabled. They are worried that interpreting the law in such a manner could lead to a flood of disabled refugees seeking advanced medical treatments in the U.S. under the guise of escaping persecution. "The categories for a social group seem to be limited only...
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC Ding dong the ethnic cleanser's gone. Slav brothers wary of asylum. You're no Idi Amin...