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...outside world. What's more, in cases where the mother has been physically or emotionally abusive, kids may need to be kept away for their own good. Still, the question is whether society can legitimately punish women for their crimes without ruining their children's lives. The fate of these children has great consequences for society. Half of the 1.5 million kids with an incarcerated parent will commit a crime before they turn 18. "We're creating a new crop that gets bigger each generation," says Anne Holt, a consultant for Florida's Department of Corrections...
...terrible, spiraling descent to write letters to loved ones. When the last occupants of the Warsaw Ghetto had finally seen their families and companions die of disease or starvation, or be carried off in trucks to extermination camps, and there could be no doubt of their own fate, still they took scraps of paper on which they wrote poems, thoughts, fragments of lives, rolled them into tight scrolls and slipped them into the crevices of the ghetto walls...
Japan has its issues with North Korea, not least of which is the fate of 10 Japanese who went missing more than 20 years ago. Tokyo insists they were abducted by Pyongyang's spies. Mori recently let slip that on a 1997 trip to the North Korean capital, a delegation of pols he led suggested a way out of the diplomatic brier patch: Let Japan "discover" its people in a third country, say, Thailand, allowing North Korea to sidestep blame. The idea has some appeal, but only while secret. "If negotiations reach a deadlock in the future, North Korea might...
...wrote the script, and he has stated that there is a very deliberate, tragic theme running through the story. Some critics have faulted the movie for being overly deterministic, a predestined tragedy that everyone sees coming. And it's true that you can't help but see Leo's fate better than he can. But isn't that part of the point? Throughout the movie, you constantly side with Leo. Poor Leo. Leo still has a thing for his beautiful cousin Erika, who is practically engaged to Willie. Poor Willie, we might also say (Gray says that "Joaquin Phoenix plays...
...Crimson's fate will be learned once and for all on Sunday night when the NCAA selection committee releases the field of 48 teams. At that time, half of the available spots will go to league champions, while the remaining 24 will be awarded on an at-large basis...