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...denied ever sharing information about South Africa, and his lawyers confirmed that the prosecution never presented any information to that effect. It was widely suspected that someone in the government, aware of Robinson's antipathy to the South African regime, provided the judge with false information to ensure a harsh sentencing for Pollard. Perhaps Weinberger himself did not whisper into Robinson's ear, but he certainly went out of his way to make sure Pollard received excessive punishment...
From the beginning, in fact, Matthiessen has hewed to the same harsh, uncompromising path: nearly all his books are set in a primitive, half- mythical landscape where men are alone with nature and a lost spark of divinity. You will not find much contemporary in the books, and there is scarcely a mention of domestic relationships, or cities, or Europe. Nearly all of them simply trace the dialogue of light and dark. "One reason I like boats so much," he explains, "is that you have to pare everything down to the bare necessities, and there you are, the captain...
Such reasoning has particular appeal in the Gaza Strip, where Hamas was born and remains strongest: there 780,000 Palestinians live on a cramped, barren swath of sand where jobs are few and living conditions harsh. Says "Omar," the 30-year-old product of a Gaza slum and now a Hamas activist: "I am a man with no home, no land, and so I have no identity. Islam gives me that identity...
...first time, a man was prosecuted and convicted under the law. Lawrence Gostin, head of the U.S. AIDS Litigation Project, recommends education and counseling for HIV-infected people to convince them that they have responsibility to tell others about their condition: "I don't believe for a minute that harsh criminal punishment is making people change their behavior...
Even so, a harsh winter could force the government to raise home-heating prices beyond the means of many Estonians. Already the country's new poor line up outside soup kitchens in the capital of Tallinn for what may be their only meal of the day. "There is real poverty here," says Yevgeni Urbanus, a director at one of the kitchens, as he surveys the elderly people who have brought their own jars for the soup...