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...hard to find examples of questionable legal outcomes like the case of the Zhuangtouying four. The plight of blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng, who was given a four-year sentence on charges of inciting public disorder last year after he exposed the forced sterilization of women as part of a provincial family-planning campaign, is one example regularly cited by activists. New York-based Human Rights Watch and others say they have recorded numerous instances of individuals who protested court decisions being beaten, tortured, imprisoned and even killed as local officials sought to bury controversial or embarrassing cases...
...understand the blind faith you put in this ex--Vice President and ex-presidential candidate. You fell for his global-warming theory hook, line and sinker. What about the noted scientists who say the global-warming theory is nothing but a load of methane-producing raw sewage...
...Bratton, as is his habit, isn't apologizing or retracting. "I'm not going to turn a blind eye to what I saw captured on the huge amount of video of the incident," he says...
...Blind Mountain. A college-educated city girl, promised a good job in a remote village, finds herself abandoned and sold into marriage. Can she escape, or somehow take revenge? The woman-in-chains story has been told countless times; the twist here is that it's a parable of inequities in rural China. Director Li Yang says the Chinese censors cut his film in more than 20 places, but what's left is still strong meat for a movie from the People's Republic. As the captive, pretty Lu Huang gives a bold, nuanced performance in a film whose last...
...still have those charges added to CORI). Record holders are also denied public housing, loans, and spots in colleges. The widespread abuse of CORIs makes the re-entry of former criminals into society nearly impossible, perpetuates the “revolving door†in prisons, and leads to blind discrimination and glaring injustice.This issue concerns the whole state; 2.8 million of 6.5 million Massachusetts residents have CORIs and all workers and volunteers must undergo background checks before they can work with “sensitive†populations, i.e. children, the elderly, and the ill. Yet CORIs are practically...