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...with their deaths. She has only one chance to appeal the ruling before she faces the noose. The reality of her predicament sinks in as Zayneb looks at the empty bunk across the room, until recently occupied by a friend of hers who has been transferred to another jail to wait for her own execution. "We spent a long time together here," Zayneb says, tears welling up in her copper-colored eyes. "They took her two days ago." She sees little hope for herself. "I am convicted of three crimes. If one is waived, what about the other...
...twin. As the video cuts between their two faces, it takes quite some time to realize that they are in fact two separate band members and not just Joel and his doppelgänger. I don’t know for sure that one day Joel will go to jail for Benji’s hipster-killing spree, but I have my suspicions. What I do know is that, while a video consisting of the band performing against a white background is classic, it is also dull unless either the performance or the filming is particularly arresting. Having...
...tried to kill Hussein in 1982 with an attack on his motorcade.? There were the death certificates of some 100 Dujail villagers whose families were sent to a desert prison.? Some of the documents were hand written, like the lists showing vehicles that carried 399 detainees from a Baghdad jail to what amounted to a concentration camp in southern Iraq in 1984. Some of the prisoners sent to the camp were children below the age of 10; one was a three-month-old baby girl. The documents, displayed on projectors for the courtroom, probably did more to break Hussein...
FILED FOR DIVORCE. Whitney Houston, 43, pop diva; from her husband, former New Edition singer Bobby Brown, 37; after a rocky 14-year marriage during which Brown did numerous stints in jail and Houston twice entered rehab for substance abuse; in Orange County, California. The couple, whose tumultuous relationship was on display in last year's reality-TV show Being Bobby Brown, have a daughter, Bobbi Kristina...
...DIED. Thet Win Aung, 34, Burmese activist sentenced to 59 years in jail in 1998 for organizing protests demanding education reform; of unconfirmed causes; in Mandalay. While officials for Burma's military dictatorship said that Thet Win Aung had died of heart failure, human-rights groups alleged that his health had deteriorated as a result of torture and neglect, and demanded an independent investigation into his death...