Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wang side-stepped several questions about his feelings towards demonstrators who fled China and escaped jail to safety and prosperity in the U.S., while he labored in prison...
...Judge Norma Holloway Johnson's decision to deny Lewinsky immunity. Although Lewinsky's attorneys have vowed to appeal, legal experts believe she has no grounds until she's actually appeared before Starr's grand jury and been found in contempt. "That would mean she may have to sit in jail pending the appeal," says TIME correspondent Viveca Novak...
Operating on the theory that if Web Hubbell didn't talk after the first jail term, maybe he would if faced with the threat of a second, Ken Starr got another indictment Thursday for the former No. 3 man at the Justice Department. The Whitewater grand jury handed down a 10-count indictment of Hubbell, his wife and two others on tax fraud charges. The allegations were that Hubbell cheated the federal government out of more than $800,000 in back taxes. But the subtext is that Starr is still looking to flip Hubbell...
Despite the openness about his jail time, Downey doesn't feel like dwelling on the past. "I don't want to talk about it too much, because it's like talking to someone about going through chemotherapy," he says, turning very serious and lighting a cigarette. "It was awful, it was highly personal, it had a direct correlation to the effects of a disease, and it doesn't do me much benefit to go into all the details of what this horrible experience was like...
...springboard into "brat-pack" films in the mid-'80s. The brilliance he displayed in such roles as the druggy Gen-Xer in 1987's Less Than Zero and later in his portrayal of Charlie Chaplin deepened the tragedy as he began spiraling down into a cycle of drug arrests, jail sentences and relapses...