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...PROBLEM: An archcriminal named Sirius Black has escaped from Azkaban, a high-security jail for wizards, and he's looking for Harry...
...villain. Shoot 'im, Greg! But no. This time the good guy is not going to kill the bad guy; the rotter will be tried, convicted and imprisoned. A less confident actor might have let this verdict sound like weakness, but Peck sells the notion that life in jail is as unpleasant as a bullet...
...left with a pile of debts by her husband. "As a family, we were better off before the Wall fell," she says. "If I could afford to, I would leave Germany altogether." A growing number of Germans are doing just that. Hardy Firl, 71, who spent three years in jail for his part in the 1953 uprising, also feels let down by what happened after the Wall fell. "I hated the East German system, but I am not really happy with the way things turned out after 1989," Firl says. "Back then at least the streets were clean, we took...
That bill, called Can-Spam, is sponsored by Senators Conrad Burns and Ron Wyden, and more notably, it is endorsed by the Direct Marketing Association. Can-Spam would make spamming a federal offense punishable by jail time and fines of up to $1.5 million. But it would also require that complainants have actively attempted to avoid spam by placing themselves on an opt-out list. Critics say opting out could become as disruptive as deleting spam is now. If all 23 million businesses in America decided to send you just one message a year, that would give you 600 emails...
...SENTENCED. Karel Hoffmann, 79, former director of Czechoslovakia's Central Communications Authority; to four years in jail for helping the Soviet Union crush the 1968 Prague Spring democracy movement; in Prague. Hoffmann ordered a media blackout to prevent news spreading about the Soviet invasion of the country. He is the first high-ranking Czech official to be convicted for involvement in thwarting the Prague Spring...