Word: imprisonments
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...Last year, an anti-infiltration bill that would legalize the practice and allow the deportation of any individual who illegally enters the country passed its first reading in the Knesset. The law, if it passes, will also make it legal to imprison asylum seekers from Sudan. As citizens of one of Israel's enemies, they would be considered "enemy nationals" and could face up to seven years in prison. "Israel is trying to make the country appear inhospitable to dissuade another mass flow of asylum seekers from Egypt," says Rozen. On Dec. 8, Israeli media reported government plans to build...
...little. For instance, in McGoohan's show--a Cold War story of totalitarianism--giving the Villagers numbers made chilling sense as a dehumanizing, de-individualizing device (and 40 years ago, played a tad more original). But for The Prisoner's new dystopia, which seeks to control minds more than imprison bodies, it doesn't quite fit. One would think the Village's happy-faced thought control would try to create the illusion of individuality--as with the mind-wiped servants in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse, who are given names and false identities. For all the reimagining, The Prisoner seems beholden...
...under the weight of its own desperate attempts at self-preservation and hand-waving bravado.Pamuk’s own work evades this unpleasant end, but it’s the lucky escaped convict from the ever tighter conventions in which “third-world” novelists imprison themselves. Although some writers like Rohinton Mistry and Vikram Chandra do tackle traditional issues with a sure hand, the “South Asian novel” in general is approaching the self-caricature of modern Bollywood. In the Indian movie industry, the vibrancy of each film taken independently loses...
...length which would eventually consist of a row of reinforced-concrete panels, a second fence and a "death strip" patrolled by snipers. Its architects called the structure an "antifascist protection wall" but Berliners knew it simply as die Mauer - the Wall. It was engineered not to protect, but to imprison...
...review" progress on power-sharing between Mugabe and Tsvangirai. Mugabe himself continues to delay the formation of a unity government, while his top brass seem focused on squirreling away as much cash as they can for as long as they are able. Mugabe's foot soldiers continue to harass, imprison and murder MDC activists. (See pictures of political tension in Zimbabwe...