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DIED. JAMES CARTER, 77, a sharecropper's son who led fellow prisoners at a Mississippi jail in a bluesy work song that four decades later became a Grammy Award--winning hit; in Chicago. One day in 1959 when musical archivist Alan Lomax was at the prison collecting material on a tape recorder, he captured Po' Lazarus, Carter's song about a man who is hunted by a lawman and gunned down. In 2000 the song found a new audience when it appeared on the sound track to the Depression-era film O Brother, Where Art Thou...
...SENTENCED. WANG XUEBING, 51, former Bank of China president, to 12 years' jail for accepting bribes; in Beijing. Wang, once a protégé of former Premier Zhu Rongji and a proponent of Chinese banking reform, ran the bank's New York branch during a period when a borrower defaulted on $34 million in fraudulent loans. The bank had to pay $20 million in fines to U.S. and Chinese regulators, but won $106.4 million in a lawsuit against the client...
...book so enraged Muslim fundamentalists that they issued a fatwa, or a religious death order, for Nasrin. Laija brought hundreds of thousands of protesters to the streets of Dhaka and other cities of the world, and soon forced Nasrin to go into hiding for fear of going to jail...
Most memorable lie you’ve ever told a TF: My teenage sister is pregnant, my father is in jail and my mom might be deported so I had to move to Lowell and take over the family business. That’s why I haven’t been to Chinese class in six to eight weeks. But I’ve been thinking about the Orient every...
...Miami last week. “I was trapped like a pig for slaughter, herded into a van stinking of pepper spray, handcuffed in plastic,” she says nonchalantly, nonetheless managing to induce nonstop laughter with descriptions of her botched attempts to practice “jail solidarity,” or refusing to divulge one’s identity when arrested...