Word: jails
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...this incident struck many as particularly disturbing. This murder at a middle school in a comfortable, middle-class beach community has been classified as a hate crime for which the perpetrator—who is being tried as an adult—faces up to 52 years in jail. Despite the heinousness of this crime, the killer seems to have suffered at the hands of American cultural attitudes, just as his victim did. This incident was an eloquently horrible manifestation of some of the effects of latent homophobia in the United States. Simply put, 14-year-olds do not take...
...opposition candidate who could challenge Abdullah won't be running on March 8. Anwar Ibrahim, a former Deputy Prime Minister who was jailed for six years on corruption charges that human-rights activists considered politically motivated, is an impassioned orator who can draw crowds of tens of thousands. His cult of personality drives the People's Justice Party, whose racial diversity is rare in Malaysian politics. But Anwar was banned from politics for five years because of his jail time. The embargo expires in April. Given that Abdullah could have called elections any time over the next 15 months...
...common than previously thought. He throws new light on a particularly dark chapter, detailing the rounding up in the 1830s of the last Aborigines, those living in the island's west on land the settlers didn't want. Men, women and children were held at the infamous Macquarie Harbour jail before being exiled for life to a small island. That this was done to British subjects was, says Boyce, "one of the great crimes of the British Empire." Yet a visiting Charles Darwin echoed a common view when he mused in 1836 that Tasmania "enjoys the great advantage of being...
...family issues, getting the girl, and befriending his former enemy, none other than that first-day-of-school bully? Check, check, and check.The title character Charlie, played by Anton Yelchin (“Alpha Dog”), is an overly earnest, delusionally optimistic troublemaker. Despite a father in jail and a drugged-out mother at home (played by a thoroughly wasted Hope Davis), Charlie approaches life and his new school with a briefcase in hand and a smile plastered on his face. Yelchin clearly has talent but is given little to work with: no amount of acting can give Charlie...
...with leaking a recent video in which a notable Fidelista, National Assembly leader Ricardo Alarcn, is hectored during a visit to the University of Havana. In the video, an angry student peppers a visibly flummoxed Alarcn with the kind of questions that usually get Cubans tossed into jail: Why does a worker have to toil two or three days just to be able to buy a toothbrush? Why can't Cubans freely travel abroad...