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The deportations are also disturbing because they constitute an act of collective punishment, in which an entire community is punished for the actions of a few. Surely 415 men, and especially those who were in prison during the incidents, were not involved in the execution or even the planning of...
HAVING INSISTED FOR MONTHS THAT THE WORD resign was not in his vocabulary, Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello surprised even his few remaining supporters last week when he announced, minutes after his impeachment trial began, that he was stepping down. By resigning, Collor hoped to safeguard his political future...
Not that Suau, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for his photos of mass starvation in Ethiopia, is unaccustomed to danger. He has covered the wars in Eritrea and Afghanistan and was part of a group of journalists detained and then released by the Iraqi military in the aftermath...
In fact this week, barring a last-minute stay of execution, Wes will hang. He will be the first person executed in Washington since 1963 and the first hanged in the U.S. since 1965. While death-penalty opponents pleaded for leniency, Dodd vowed that he would sue anyone who sought...
Over time he turned his attention to patients who were soon to be dead, looking to salvage whatever he could. The execution of condemned murderers seemed an extravagant waste, since controversial drugs and surgical techniques could be tested on criminal volunteers. The prisoner's brain provided a unique opportunity to...