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...finale of Seinfeld, the cast of self-involved characters ended up in jail for nine seasons' worth of selfishness and hilariously brutal indifference to the rest of the world's feelings. At the time, Seinfeld was suffering from too much freedom. "To be honest," he says, "I was kinda lost after the show. I really didn't want to get married, I didn't like being single anymore, and I didn't know what I wanted to do." Whatever he did, it wouldn't be in Hollywood. "I got tired of being treated like a precious little...
...text messages started arriving around midnight. They came with lists of names of opposition leaders and party workers aligned against Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf. One by one they had been arrested and detained - some thrown in jail, others kept under house arrest. They were given 30-day detention orders and arrested for breach of public safety ordinances, though they had done nothing yet. "Has Mush gone Mad?" asked one instant message. "Let them do their worst," said another. "We will carry...
...This new round of arrests, following just two weeks after government forces slammed thousands of opposition party workers into jail before the arrival - and subsequent deportation - of former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, is the latest sign of a government determined to hang on to power at all costs. "The government has panicked," says Ahsan Iqbal, Information Secretary for Sharif's PML(N) party, speaking from an underground safe house. "What are they trying to prove by bulldozing all opposition to their plans? Does anyone think this can be called a democracy...
...larger concern, suspects Iqbal, is a new plan by the All Parties Democratic Movement (APDM), an alliance of opposition parties, to collectively resign their parliamentary seats before the presidential vote takes place. "They are trying to sabotage our plan by putting all the party workers and leaders in jail until after the vote," he says. "The government thinks that will prevent us from making a political statement by walking out together. That would make the election look like a one-sided circus." In retaliation for the arrests, the APDM has called for more protests outside the Supreme Court on Monday...
...York aren't Baghdad. Still, the fact is security contractors are a daily reminder for Iraqis that their country is occupied, and they are second-class citizens. The insult is not just that security contractors are allowed to use lethal force and not worry about going to jail; a Western security contractor will make in a week what an Iraqi might make in a year. Private security contractors are a humiliation equal to the humiliations that provoked the Boxer Rebellion in China or drove Iranians to overthrow the Shah. Security contractors may be keeping our officials alive, but they...