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Richard J. Sharpe was found hanging from a bedsheet in his cell in MCI-Norfolk prison, according to Diane Wiffin, a spokeswoman for the Massachusetts Department of Correction. He had been sentenced to life in prison in 2001 for shooting his wife—and high school sweetheart—Karen Sharpe in 2000 in the foyer of her home while their two young children slept in an adjoining room, according to media reports...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Convicted Cross-Dressing Murderer Commits Suicide | 1/9/2009 | See Source »

...prisoner unconscious in his cell. Then a second prisoner was discovered frothing at the mouth. Both had swallowed large amounts of an antianxiety drug. Not long after, 10 guards were lured into a medium-security bunkhouse where a detainee was apparently getting ready to hang himself with a bedsheet. In the ensuing melee, prisoners wielded broken fan blades, light fixtures and pieces of metal against riot police, who fired pepper spray and rubber pellets, leaving several lightly injured on both sides. It was the most serious incident since terrorist suspects were first taken to Gitmo after 9/11...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gitmo Comes Under Fire | 5/22/2006 | See Source »

Lowell House resident Alexander L. Edelman ’07 sat perched on the dining hall window ledge, light blue bedsheet draped over his shoulders...

Author: By Margaret W. Ho, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: With Fanfare, Houses Welcome Freshmen | 3/25/2005 | See Source »

...fisted regime that controls the police, army, media, legislature and courts, tolerates no rival parties, virtually outlaws free speech and makes liberal use of torture. Inmates inside nearby Maafushi Prison claim they are the epicenter of the repression. "They torture and kill, then they hang the bodies from a bedsheet so it looks like suicide," says one 36-year-old prisoner speaking on a smuggled mobile phone, who says he has seen 12 inmates die this way. Ahmed Nazim, 27, an opposition spokesman, rages that Gayoom has spread "fear" across the islands with a "culture of torture and abuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Paradise Divided | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

Jane Krakowski, formerly the uninhibited secretary on TV's Ally McBeal, makes one of the more spectacular entrances in recent stage history in the Broadway musical Nine. Playing the mistress of a movie director, she arrives in Act I on a satin-bedsheet swing lowered from the rafters. Flaunting her slim but curvy body and looking like Barbarella in '60s-style layered hair and industrial-strength eye makeup, she gives the show a jolt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Needs Revivals? | 5/5/2003 | See Source »

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