Word: prison
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...topics in the U.S., they have been openly debated and researched for more than 20 years in Holland, which has a record of pragmatism in dealing with thorny social issues like drugs and abortion. Euthanasia is still, under Dutch law, a crime punishable by up to 12 years in prison. But in fact, the Netherlands has tolerated the practice for more than a decade, and the number of cases has risen dramatically over the past five years. Have the Dutch found a sensible and humane way of dealing with the unbearable pain and suffering that often comes...
...have a low sap threshold," says FRANCES MCDORMAND, who was worried that Paradise Road, a wrenching tale of a women's prisoner of war camp, might cross it. But McDormand's character is so nonsappy she's almost surly. "It was really gratifying to me that after 15 years of work they thought, 'If she can do a Minnesotan police chief, she can do a German Jew,'" says McDormand of the difference between this role and her Oscar-nominated performance in Fargo. Right now life is nothing like a prison camp. "I'm picking out shoes and dresses...
...HAGUE: For a moral victory, it was a bittersweet one. Denounced worldwide as the thugs behind the bulk of Bosnia's war crimes, Bosnian Serbs Tuesday were cast as the victims, detailing horrific scenes of gang rape, torture and murder at the hands of Muslim a nd Croatian prison officials for a hushed United Nations tribunal. The trial of three Muslims and one Croat is the first collective war crimes trial since the end of World War II and the first to judge rape as a war crime. Seventy-six witnesses will make the trip from Yugoslavia to testify before...
Those discontented with the first Simpson trial can rest assured that the damages awarded to the plaintiffs in the second trial, coupled with the expense of an appeal and the hounding by creditors, will cause Simpson to endure a fate far worse than any prison sentence. JOHN K. DAVIS Gallup, New Mexico...
...privilege. His daughter was retired into obscurity, his nephew was thrown into jail, and his wife Jiang Qing, implacable enemy of Deng, was arrested, tried and convicted of treason for her role as ringleader of the Gang of Four in the brutal Cultural Revolution. She spent 13 years in prison, where she committed suicide...