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...months, prisoners have been sentenced to hard labor all over the world, including in Palestine (for collaborating with Israel) and Gambia (for criticizing the President). When President Bill Clinton recently negotiated a pardon for two Current TV journalists who crossed the border into North Korea, he spared them an ordeal many don't survive. The Hermit Kingdom's prison camps, which experts say contain up to 200,000 inhabitants, are considered among the world's worst, replete with grueling physical labor, paltry rations and a lack of medical attention. Analysts estimate half of all prisoners do not survive the first...
...Begged police not to reveal that he had survived the attack because the LeT had sent him to die, and if it were revealed that he had survived, he would be killed by members of the organization. (Video: Watch Mumbai residents describe the terrifying ordeal...
...spend her honeymoon in June 2006 in West Palm Beach, Fla., helping her husband Tigran find alternative treatments for connective tissue sarcoma, an aggressive cancer, or that six months later, the Air Force-enlisted man, 21, succumbed to the disease. But as it turned out, her painful ordeal had only just begun. While the Veteran Affairs Department deemed the Russian immigrant (not yet a legal resident) eligible for surviving-spouse benefits, immigration officials at Homeland Security took a very different view: at Natalia's interview for legal residence the next year, she was told that because she hadn't been...
...brooding surfaces and no depth. He can't touch whatever primal pain Coppola wants Tetro to conceal and then reveal. Nor has Coppola filled out the canvas with telling incidents or characters that go much beyond caricature. Sitting through the two-plus hours of Tetro can be an ordeal...
...Frederick, a former editor at TIME, is writing a book about Green's unit, Black Hearts: One Platoon's Disintegration in the Triangle of Death and the American Ordeal in Iraq, which is to be published in spring 2010 by Harmony Books...