Word: pens
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...first apply for permission from their local Public Security Bureau. Such requests are rarely granted, and most demonstrations in China don't have official sanction. The zones were met with skepticism from human rights advocates. Nicholas Bequelin, a researcher with the NGO Human Rights Watch, called it "a protest pen" meant to segregate demonstrators. "It's a system that has been set in place to deflect criticism about the lack of freedom to protest, the lack of freedom of assembly and demonstration in China," he says...
TORI SPELLING, mother of a 1-year-old, to pen parenting memoir...
...with Madonna (that relationship didn't work out, we're told, because ''Madonna came on far too strong for him. Blatant sexuality really embarrasses John''). According to the book, he flamed out with famous flirt Sinead O'Connor. When John asked for her phone number, the singer snapped his pen...
...Amnesty's message, and the musicians talked about their involvement to the press. A.I. believes in the simple--as Gabriel calls it, ''almost ridiculous''--idea of getting members to write postcards and letters to governments on behalf of specific prisoners. Sting says he finds the work fun. ''As a pen pal, you get to write the leader of some repressive regime, basically making a nuisance of yourself. It's the rebelliousness of rock turned to good use at last!'' The message was apparently getting through. Kids leaving concerts were picking up handout postcards they had earlier tossed on the floor...
...fall of 2006. Hamdan was recharged under the Military Commissions Act and moved into a new maximum-security facility. There he was permitted only an hour or so of indirect contact with other detainees during his daily recreation period. (He had to exercise alone, but his chain-linked recreation pen adjoined several others...