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...Giuffrè had never mentioned my name before today," Dell'Utri said, referring to previous closed-door depositions. "What mutual interests are going on here?" Should turncoat informants like Giuffrè be believed? Since changes in the law in the 1980s, Italian magistrates have used Mafia collaborators to convict hundreds of fellow mobsters and dozens of corrupt politicians. But the pool of credible turncoats has largely dried up. Antonio Ingroia, lead prosecutor against Dell'Utri, said the case is just the latest chapter in the Mob's storied links with elected officials. "Cosa Nostra is an organization that...
...mixed up Tiger Woods with Bagger Vance--the angelic black caddy in the eponymous film who uses supernatural powers to help a white golf pro get over the yips and straighten out his love life. Or perhaps they have confused the world's best golfer with the hulking black convict in The Green Mile, played so powerfully by Michael Clarke Duncan, who never gets a chance to use his supernatural powers to cure another black person, only white people. Both characters are examples of a recurring Hollywood fantasy that might be called the Magic Negro--strange black beings who come...
...independence activist Manuel Carrascalao, and for crimes against humanity during East Timor's bloody break with Indonesia in 1999; in Jakarta. The sentence was the stiffest yet imposed by a special tribunal investigating the killings of more than 1,000 East Timorese. But the court has yet to convict any members of the Indonesian military, which had control over militias like Aitarak. Guterres remains free pending an appeal that may not be heard for several years...
...judge] said because my character was not under question and because I had no prior conviction, he saw no reason to convict me on this charge,” Mughogho said...
According to Michael Bonds, an ex-convict who now works with the community-based activism group BLACKOUTBoston, the government has many economic incentives to keep a large prison population...