Word: prison
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recipients are black, although the majority are in fact white. Racism becomes the unarticulated engine that drives the reform. The welfare system in turn becomes a punitive one. It becomes a system about punishing those who are seen as lazy, incompetent, as just not good enough. It becomes a prison sentence almost impossible to escape: one that is self-perpetuating for generations to come...
...folk-meets-city-folk story quickly gets on an even simpler track when Joe sees his dream girl, Lily (Megan Ward). Golden-haired and slo-mo, she tends a garden niche and hopes to convert a local lot into Eden before her senator father (Robert Vaughn) makes it a prison Hell...
DIED. PAUL TOUVIER, 81, former French pro-Nazi militia chief and the only Frenchman convicted of World War II crimes against humanity; in a prison near Paris...
...backdrop of The Last Don may be operatic ("God's world was a prison in which man had to earn his daily bread, and his fellow man was a fellow beast, carnivorous and without mercy"), but the setting and characters are commedia dell'arte. Puzo playfully admires the aging Don Dom. "Early on," he writes, "he had been told the famous maxim of American justice, that it was better that a hundred guilty men go free than that one innocent man be punished. Struck almost dumb by the beauty of the concept, he became an ardent patriot...
...leftist views by the military regime of General Suharto, Pramoedya, as the 71-year-old writer is known, was forbidden to have books and writing materials. The prohibition (enforced for all jailed intellectuals) was deadly serious, and at his hard-labor camp on the island of Buru some prisoners who violated it were executed. Pramoedya's response was to compose his novels orally and recite them to other prisoners. Eventually a sympathetic general allowed him paper and pen, and then a typewriter. From his own memory and what his prison mates could recall, he copied down the novels that would...