Word: jails
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...eventually went to jail after being caught parking a car bomb in London, but was released under an amnesty. Did she ever think of going back to war? "No. It's finished." Marion was convinced the IRA rank and file were betrayed by its leadership, and it had all been a waste of lives. She now is married and working as a nurse...
...month after winning parliamentary elections, the party of Pakistan's slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto announced Saturday that its candidate for Prime Minister will be Yousaf Raza Gilani, a former parliamentary speaker and close aide to Bhutto, who spent four years in jail on allegations that he abused his authority during Bhutto's second term as premier in the 1990s. Pakistan's new parliament is set to vote on a Prime Minister Monday, with President Pervez Musharraf due to swear in the new premier Tuesday. Gilani's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) will form a government in coalition with...
...penning and often starring in nine original plays in nine years: I Can Do Bad All by Myself (2000), Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2001), Madea's Family Reunion (2002), Madea's Class Reunion (2003), Meet the Browns (2004), Why Did I Get Married? (2004), Madea Goes to Jail (2005), What's Done in the Dark (2006) and this year's The Marriage Counselor...
...agreements made with Israel, the P.A. is supposed to crack down on militants threatening Israel. When it has suited Abbas to arrest his political foes in Hamas, he has been only too happy to oblige the Israelis (more than 500 Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants are now in Palestinian jails). But Abbas cannot crack down on militants when Israel is showing its mailed fist, as it has done of late in Gaza. So at the height of the Israeli assault, Abbas was unable to stop one of his lieutenants from releasing 20 Hamas prisoners from Tulkaram jail in solidarity with...
...away, why he risked so much. He had built a reputation as an ethical crusader, and as a former prosecutor, he knew well the myriad electronic and surveillance tools that reveal hidden arrangements for crimes like prostitution. Just last year, Spitzer had signed a law that lengthened jail time for johns from three months to as much as a year...