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...would be putting it mildly. The stories being told by many Zimbabweans now living in South Africa seem to be straight out of a Hollywood horror movie. When they return home to Zimbabwe, they find that their family members are afraid to speak out for fear of landing in jail. If Zimbabwe had the assets that world powers have, perhaps the people of that beautiful country would find salvation. I just hope that my own country's policy of quiet diplomacy turns noisier. Nicole Geater, cape town...
...party, the Union for a Popular Movement. It may be against his nature, but he has done it before. In 2003, as Interior Minister, he opposed many in his party by reversing a law that allowed foreign convicts to be deported once they'd served a jail sentence, which amounted to a form of double jeopardy. "If it wasn't for Sarkozy, it wouldn't have happened," says Bernard Bolze, a prisoners' rights advocate otherwise deeply critical of Sarkozy's hard line on crime. Arno Klarsfeld, a lawyer who worked for him when he was Interior Minister, says Sarkozy also...
Lady Justice, evidently not an US Weekly reader, has ruled against professional celebrity PARIS HILTON, sentencing her to 45 days in jail for driving with a suspended license. Celebrity blogsite DEFAMER mock-gasps at the decision, which it claims "has shaken our faith in celebrity slap-on-the-wrist justice." SCORE...
...would be putting it mildly. The stories being told by many Zimbabweans now living in South Africa seem to be straight out of a Hollywood horror movie. When they return home to Zimbabwe, they find that their family members are afraid to speak out for fear of landing in jail. If Zimbabwe had the assets that world powers have, perhaps the people of that beautiful country would find salvation. I just hope that my own country's policy of quiet diplomacy turns noisier. Nicole Geater, CAPE TOWN
...good times can't last. When macho skinhead Combo (played by a snarling Stephen Graham) turns up at a party, fresh out of jail, things are about to go awry. Quickly the alpha Combo sets about ousting Woody with a classic divide-and-rule speech about the need for "proud warriors" to defend England's green and pleasant land. Having then established himself as a surrogate father to Shaun, Woody drags the remaining members of the gang, after several desertions, to a fascist National Front rally...