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...avid reader of books about the FBI, Nicholson was reminded of Lewis in 2005 and admitted to cyberstalking him after he kept seeing Lewis' name pop up. Realizing he and Lewis were "practically neighbors" (Lewis moved to Cambridge after being released from prison), Nicholson met up with Lewis for a private, untaped interview in July 2007. He pounded Lewis with questions about the Tylenol killings until, Nicholson said, Lewis got pretty angry. Yet surprisingly, Lewis then granted Nicholson a public interview later that year...
...taught at a radical university before being arrested by Yemeni authorities and imprisoned for 18 months. The exact reasons are unknown; he was never charged. Al-Awlaki has blamed the U.S. for pressuring the Yemeni government to detain him and claims the FBI interrogated him in prison. (The FBI did not respond to requests for information about al-Awlaki...
...crackdown on challenges to the government, Beijing sentenced Liu Xiaobo, 54, to 11 years in prison for activities that include co-authoring last year's Charter 08 petition calling for freedom of speech and religion. Rights groups, the U.S. and the E.U. condemned the sentence; authorities dismissed criticism of the activist's trial as "gross interference" in China's internal affairs...
...California and the California state university system to solid financial footing." But state senate Democratic leader Darrell Steinberg's assessment of Schwarzenegger's dedication to higher ed was less than glowing: "It would have been even a better speech six years ago, because during the governor's tenure, prison spending has increased 32% and higher education has declined 9%." (See protests against tuition hikes in California and other places...
While Schwarzenegger's plan spares the state's four-year universities, K-12 schools and two-year community colleges get whacked, losing $2.4 billion in funding. And it remains unclear how prison costs can be contained. Schwarzenegger wants to privatize the prisons, but to do so, he will have to defeat the powerful prison-guard union. After years of stiffer sentences supported by politicians and voters, California's prison population has exploded to 170,000 inmates. Overcrowding is so severe that federal judges have ordered the state to reduce the prison population by 40,000 over the next two years...