Word: jails
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Thinking of players as real human beings, with identities off the field, spoils the fantasy. Atlanta Falcons fans don't care that Michael Vick is going to jail for torturing dogs; they care that without him, their team is 0-2. The media often bash athletes for being greedy and irresponsible, for caring only about themselves and not about us. But why should they? We don't really care about them...
...attacks leave Erica battered and bereft. She sits in her apartment listening to David speak comfortingly, chillingly, on her voice mail. Her home is a jail, but outside - the city whose byways it has been her job and passion to celebrate - is a charnel house she fears to enter. When Erica forces herself to go out, to the police station, the law ignores her pleas to investigate the murder...
...prison, to go anywhere they wanted to take me in Pakistan. I don't mind that." And then they whisked him away from the lounge to the tarmac where there was a plane, and they said we are going to take you to a far flung jail in the south of Pakistan, and he thought, "they are taking me to Karachi. OK fine." But after an hour and a half after the plane did not descend, he was a little concerned. "We haven't stopped," he asked. "What is happening, why haven't we landed?" And then he was told...
Your party leadership has been thrown in jail, and members are scared to come out into the streets. How will you organize a protest? The entire cream of our party leadership has been detained in prison - Rawalpindi, Lahore, all over Punjab and Pakistan. So obviously our workers, our people will have to put our heads together and very shortly we will make a protest march, demonstrations. Today those that did not go to jail are meeting to deliberate how to move forward...
Musharraf's tenure may be drawing to a close, but his strength is still quite visible. Over the weekend thousands of Sharif's supporters were detained or thrown in jail on specious charges. Last night the secretary general of his party was taken in by security forces, despite having set up a safe house in anticipation of such an occurrence. And a convoy of party leaders setting out for the airport to greet Sharif was stopped less than two miles from its departure point by scores of police armed with riot shields and metal-tipped bamboo staves. Parliamentarian Tamina Dultana...