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...Although the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center lists Zulkarnaen as one of al-Qaeda's "point men" in Southeast Asia, Jones doubts he is active in the JI leadership. "What's striking is that he doesn't come up in conversations or interrogations. It's as though he is a non-person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Manhunt | 6/26/2008 | See Source »

...action than they were of their original arrest. Someone does say he's sorry for the mistake, an apology that doesn't quite cut it with Yunis. The filmmakers also tell us there is no record whatsoever of Yunis in his captors' files. Bureaucratically speaking, he's just another non-person, no different from the millions who have been reduced to that status by other totalitarian systems during the last hundred or so years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Iraqi Kafka | 3/23/2007 | See Source »

...shows a soft, susceptible side of human nature. Scenes in hospitals lend themselves to that. Even the most menacing convict appears frightened and insecure when lying in a hospital bed, facing a serious illness. Not one of his characters is ever portrayed as an inherently bad individual, or a non-person, whatever their past, whatever their habits. Verghese is completely non-judgmental. He manages to avoid moralizing or preaching. Nor does he glorify anything. Rather, he tells it like it is, and that is more than enough to convey many of the problems and the agonies caused by addictions...

Author: By Melissa Gniadek, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tennis as Metaphor For Healing and Loss | 10/23/1998 | See Source »

...five-day congress, members of the Soviet Writers' Union voted overwhelmingly to transform the former country house of Pasternak, who had once been a virtual non-person, into a museum. Writers also discussed the publication of Pasternak's most important novel, Doctor Zhivago, which is still banned in the Soviet Union. They apparently reached no definite ! conclusions about recommending publication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Back to the Future | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

...Their freedom to work is restricted; they are under constant police surveillance; their homes, telephones and cars are often bugged and their mail is intercepted. "Old friends would see me and cross the street to walk on the other side," recalls one former victim. Adds another: "You become a non-person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Non-Persons | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

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