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...sodden campaigning? Did Richard Nixon grow his shadowy stubble, or did his shadowy stubble grow him? The British weekly New Scientist has touched on this, exploring what is known as nominative determinism--the common case of people whose names echo their jobs. There is the director of penal reform Frances Crook, the marine biologist Steven Haddock. American culture has been rife with such synchronicity--pitcher Rollie Fingers, Senator George McGovern. "Are these whimsicalities of chance," Carl Jung once asked, "or the suggestive effects of the name...
...criminalize Holocaust denial. France’s passage of this bill would be an ironic parallel to the circumstances in Turkey, which tried Orhan Pamuk, this year’s Nobel laureate for literature, for speaking about the Armenian genocide—which violates Article 301 of the Turkish penal code. In defending free speech, even the expatriate Pamuk spoke against the French bill. A free market of ideas, not laws imposed by the state, should establish what is true...
...assault would result in his being placed in solitary confinement until the transfer situation dissipates. After the assault, he was indeed sent to solitary confinement for ten days. A source in the Federal Penitentiary Agency (FSIN) told the Interfax wire agency that afterwards Kuchma would be transferred to another penal colony. Khodorkovsky referred to Kuchma as "unstable...
...unpopular in Turkey - and not just with nationalists. These include loosening restrictions on the use of the Kurdish language, and on Kurdish media, even as a new Kurdish insurgency is gaining momentum in the southeast. Demands that Turkey recognize Greek-controlled Cyprus and changes aimed at bringing Turkey's penal code in line with Europe's are also controversial, seen by many as undermining the integrity of the Turkish state. In a recent poll, 51% of Turks said that they now saw the E.U.-inspired reforms as a repeat of the widely reviled 1920 Treaty of Sèvres, which...
...illnesses are going to wind up self-medicating with alcohol, with drugs. So then you're going to have a dual-diagnosis problem. And sooner or later they're going to run into the police, and they're going to be incarcerated. We're already disproportionately part of the penal system, and a high percentage of those people in jail have mental illnesses...