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...time I won the Nobel, the authorities have tried three times to build a case against me. At the moment I have an open case against me. I have been accused of having taken money from the U.S. to give to Akbar Ganji, a journalist who is in jail, so he would go on a hunger strike and make Iran lose face...
...SENTENCED. Bj?rn Hoen, 37, Petter Rosenvinge, 38, and Petter Tharaldsen, 34, to jail terms ranging from four to eight years, for involvement in the theft of Edvard Munch's masterpieces The Scream and Madonna, which are still missing; in Oslo. The paintings were snatched by two masked gunmen during a daylight raid on the Munch Museum in Oslo in 2004. Hoen and Tharaldsen have been ordered to pay $122 million in compensation to the city of Oslo...
...Bolshevik revolutionaries shot the last Czar and his family in 1918. In the early 1990s, local factories ran out of money, and rival Mafia gangs battled for control of parts of town. The killings haven't entirely stopped (a member of the city council was found hanged in his jail cell last year after being arrested for alleged extortion), but these days cranes rather than guns are a more apt symbol of Yekaterinburg. Office and apartment blocks are springing up. There's an Egyptian-themed bowling alley, a Scottish pub where the barmen wear kilts, a chain of eight fast...
...crusade of hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and others to get Governor George Pataki and the state legislatures to change those laws. It?s a closeup lesson in political compromise - or, as many supporters of change see it, the humiliating status quo. "The Right, they?re calling it a jail break," says Simmons, while the Left, "they want total repeal." An hour into the film, Pataki and Simmons do cut a deal, but one that reduces the penalty from 15 to 9 years and still doesn?t allow judges to ameliorate the sentence. On stage, comedian-turned-activist Randy Predico...
...convicted, Chung could face jail time, but Korean tycoons have a history of survival. After going to prison for seven months for fraud in 2003, Chey Tae Won, chairman of oil company SK Corp., returned to his post, fighting off shareholder efforts to remove him. Still, Hahm Sung Deuk, a political economist at Korea University, says the arrest of such a prominent executive will act as a powerful warning to other businessmen: "The owners of companies will realize that this time is different." That may be bad news for Chung, but not for Korea's reputation...