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...Before Hampel was hustled off to a Montreal jail last week, agents with the Canada Border Services Agency seized his bogus Ontario provincial birth certificate, the passport that had been obtained with the phony birth certificate, $7,800 in five different currencies, encrypted prepaid cellphone cards and index cards containing information on Canadian history and civics. Hampel claimed to be a former lifeguard and travel consultant living in Montreal since 1999. Journalists found a website he had set up where he described his extensive travels abroad and published photos of the countries he visited, primarily in Eastern Europe...
...result was a grotesque miscarriage of justice. And there it rested, frozen and irreversible. I wanted to hear O.J. speak because that was the one way to, in effect, reopen the case, unfreeze the travesty and get us some way back to justice. Not tangible throw-the-thug-in-jail justice. But the psychological justice of establishing Simpson's guilt with perfect finality...
...illegal payments of $2.4 million made without Volkswagen's knowledge to labor representative Klaus Volkert, who resigned soon after the investigation began last June. Hartz, who quit last July, denies wrongdoing but accepts the perks were in his "area of supervision." If convicted, he could face five years in jail...
...before he quietly says “Paramedics drive back slow to this hospital / You get pronounced dead before the hospital.” Whether they’re flamboyantly immoral or wanting redemption, Akon’s characters always find themselves failing. Akon sings from inside a jail cell on “Tired of Runnin’,” which is probably his best expression of futility. The “thug who wants to make good” is a mantle that many rappers have been only too eager to take up, but Akon knows that...
...nature of the prevailing social norms. Plainly, as the HIV-infection figures show, sexual relationships outside of marriage are a reality in the Arab world, but those occur behind closed doors. The political and religious authorities tend to deny the existence of homosexuality in their midst, and gays face jail or flogging if exposed...