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...military," he now explains, and scoffs at idle suggestions that this affiliation could have created some entanglements with the law. "I've never been arrested in my life. Never had cuffs put on me, never been charged with a crime, never spent one day in jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Body Slam — Jesse Ventura | 10/22/2008 | See Source »

...boost to the People's Alliance for Democracy, a coalition of anti-government protesters whose demonstrations helped bring down Thaksin in 2006. At the Government House on Tuesday, the official site of the PM's offices which PAD has now occupied for two months, protesters chanted, "Put Thaksin in jail," after the verdict was announced. Their ongoing fight against the former PM also helped push Thaksin ally Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej out of power in August. The PAD now claims the current democratically elected government, led by Thaksin's brother-in-law Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat, is acting under orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thai Court Gives Thaksin Two Years | 10/21/2008 | See Source »

...side of the struggle and turned in an enemy," he said. "But he would have also known the consequences. Those people were convinced that the class struggle is tough," Tuma concludes. "When you are chopping down a forest, splinters fly." Dvoracek ended up spending almost 14 years in jail, mostly in a notorious labor camp, a uranium mine in Bohemia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Was Milan Kundera a Communist Snitch? | 10/18/2008 | See Source »

...more contemplative tracks that T.I. surpasses anything in his previous catalog. Take third track “Ready For Whatever,” in which T.I. plumbs his own motivation and rationale in light of his gun-related arrest last year. “Either die or go to jail / That’s a hell of a decision / But I’m wrong and I know it / My excuse is unimportant / I’m just tryna let you know that I ain’t think I had a choice,” he raps, taking responsibility...

Author: By Joshua J. Kearney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: T.I. | 10/17/2008 | See Source »

Isaiah Stotler spent seven months of his 18th year in the reservation jail for a variety of offenses tied to his drinking. "I had a major problem with being told what to do," he admits, "but I finally swallowed it." He cut his drinking to an occasional beer, qualified for college by passing a ged test and enrolled. "My record says I'm a drug dealer and gangbanger," he says. "But my transcript says that I'm getting all A's. I proved that people can change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard from Chief Dull Knife College | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

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