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...people they will never, ever talk to. Rice and U.S. President George W. Bush are best friends, but the list of people, parties, organizations and countries they won't talk to is endless. It's time they grew up. Danute V. Handy Santa Barbara, California, U.S. Hotel Cells In "Jail breaks" [Aug. 7], Max Wooldridge claimed: "We've heard of office buildings and farmhouses being turned into hotels - but we had never heard of converting prisons." Please send him to Stockholm's Langholmen Hotel, a former prison that was closed in 1975 and then converted into one of Sweden...
...HABITS If you're in Alabama, don't dress up as a nun, priest or rabbi for Halloween. Impersonating "a minister of any religion" is punishable by fine or jail...
...IPOs) of start-ups from Netscape to Amazon.com collecting as much as $120 million a year for himself in the process. Yet the deal he reached last week may well be the one he cherishes most. After 31/2 years of court dates, two criminal trials and the prospect of jail time, Quattrone struck a deal in which federal prosecutors agreed to all but drop charges that he obstructed justice during a 2000 investigation into how his employer handed out IPO shares of hot new companies...
...when a top Beijing lawyer tried to represent Chen in a Linyi court on Aug. 18, he was promptly tossed into jail himself. I began to wonder whether the international attention was doing more harm than good. In previous years, a plea from the U.S. State Department could help get a Chinese political prisoner released, typically as a goodwill gesture before important international summits. But in recent months, foreign pressure appears to have done little. On Friday, for instance, a Chinese researcher for The New York Times, who had been languishing in jail for nearly two years, was sentenced...
...which may have contributed to the speedy course of injustice in Linyi. With his own legal counsel in jail, Chen was represented by two court-appointed lawyers. The trial lasted just two hours. Thursday's announcement of a four-year-and-three-month sentence surprised even those who expected little more than a sham trial; lawyers here agree that similar charges rarely elicit a jail sentence of more than a year. "Chen's case typifies how some local officials can take the law as a personal tool for revenge," says Teng Biao, a university lecturer who has been part...