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Shortly after he and his son were peacefully and very publicly arrested on charges of "economic plunder" and carted off to a jail in a Manila military compound, Joseph Estrada, the disgraced ex-President of the Philippines, proclaimed his innocence on television and radio interviews and dismissed his persecution as a conspiracy being waged against him by the ?lite classes. It was potentially rousing material, but the former movie star's delivery failed him. He was still wearing his trademark white wristband adorned with the presidential seal, but his swagger was gone. He looked defeated and confused...
...damage they had unwittingly done to their kids. "Every parent began to worry," says John Bruer, president of the McDonnell Foundation and author of the book The Myth of the First Three Years. "They thought, 'If I don't have the latest Mozart CD, my child is going to jail rather than Yale...
...fear that sending junior outside to roam will end in reporting him missing to the police. Do we now have to add to these fears--some of them neurotic, others real--the fear that "play deprivation" will stunt kids' spirits, shrink their brains and even land them in jail? Such protective obsessing seems to be the problem, and doing more of it offers no solution. Parents should probably just tell kids that fooling around is bad for them, open the door and follow them outside. All work and no play can make adults dull too--sometimes even a little paranoid...
...Boys’ Unit,” Johnson writes of trying to reach and interview Charles Taylor, one of Liberia’s leaders. He gets stuck on buses that sometimes decide not to go anywhere. He gets his passport only mistakenly stamped, and nearly sends his guide to jail by accident. He is arrested countless times, at least once without realizing he is under arrest for several days. He is transported by a magical displaced Italian who has “not much more than the tendons and skin and astonishment of a baby bird...
...officers conversing with each other, a large white van arrived to remove the body. As the double-gloved police officers checked the man’s feet and pockets, a group of preschoolers approached on their daily afternoon walk, all attached to one of those rope-devices reminiscent of jail-lines. Seeing the children, the officers moved into super-speed body-bagging, wrenching the man’s arms down to fit into the bag. They zipped the bag up just as the children crossed the street, blocking the gurney from view with their bodies. The children didn?...