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...more stunning than the spectacle of a quivering, hangdog Ohio Governor pleading no contest in August to criminal charges is the fact that he is still in office. Bob Taft, the Republican great-grandson of a U.S. President and son of a Senator, could have received a two-year jail term for failing to report, as state law requires, 47 golf outings paid for by others, but a municipal-court judge let him walk after slapping him with a $4,000 fine. Taft has since ignored thunderous demands for his resignation, even from many onetime allies...
...rebound; as he attempted to return to the country to seek re-election in defiance of an international arrest warrant; after five years in exile in Japan, where he is a citizen thanks to his Japanese-born emigrant parents; in Santiago, Chile. Fujimori faces up to 55 years in jail and $29 million in fines for alleged corruption and sanctioning of death squads during his 10-year rule...
...have been installing surveillance cameras at internet cafes to track down those who are trying to access objectionable content. What happens to those who get caught in this way is something of an unanswered question, but the preponderance of the evidence suggests some scary things—long jail times, perhaps without trial, and so on.What are we to do, if anything, to express our feelings on this matter? It’s a difficult question: a foreign government has taken a position that is at some level fundamentally at odds with a feature we see as essential for legitimate...
...shows starring Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby (who gave him his nickname) before landing a job as the Tonight Show's first bandleader. With his Vandyke beard and audience-participation games, he was a key part of the show, bantering with Steve Allen and, later, Johnny Carson. After a jail stint for income-tax evasion, he founded the symphonic orchestra New York Pops, which he directed until his death...
...sense of nationalism: We will not allow the world to tell us what to do! MANDELA: In spite of my criticism, it must be acknowledged he has made a very important contribution to the transformation of an apartheid state to a nonracial society. MANDELA: When I was sent to jail, my mother got a terrible shock. She had never been to school, and valued education. She had in mind a dignified profession for me. I had to sit down and explain to her why I was in the A.N.C. She became so convinced that later she said...