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...whom is an inactive Crimson editorial editor and one of whom is an inactive Crimson news editor—sequentially walked out and shouted a few short prepared sentences about specific injustices for which they believed the FBI was responsible, ranging from McCarthyism to the prison at Guantanamo Bay. They were swarmed by police, removed from the auditorium, and Mueller continued his speech, remarking about how wonderful it is that people can express dissent so openly in America.The whole thing lasted under two minutes, and the protesters planned on leaving quietly as soon as they were warned...
Like Schwarzenegger, Crist wasn't always known as an ideological moderate. As a state senator in the 1990s, he was called "Chain Gang Charlie" for co-sponsoring a law that revived prison labor in leg irons. But Crist says his hard line on criminals is simply part of what also drove him to renew ex-convicts' voter rights. Instead of ideology, "fundamental fairness was always spoken about in our home," says Crist, 50, sitting in shirtsleeves in his office, beneath a painting of his Greek immigrant grandfather when he was a shoe-shine boy. He speaks daily on the phone...
...becoming a suicide bomber as preferable to an arranged marriage, common in the Arab world. One teenager volunteered for suicide duty because her father refused to let her marry a boyfriend. As a female student from Birzeit University says, "I'd rather spend my life in an Israeli prison than trapped with a husband that I didn't love...
...none of that seems to deter Alem?n's revived presidential ambitions, nor does he appear too concerned about the legal provision that prevents prison inmates from running for office. Instead, Alem?n is out on the road campaigning in old form, with more optimism than Orphan Annie, more money than Daddy Warbucks, more jolliness than Santa Clause and a political charisma that - pound for pound - rivals Bill Clinton. And in Nicaragua, that combination trumps reality...
...travel the country. And now that President Ortega needs opposition support for his government's agenda, Alem?n, who controls the second biggest legislative bloc in the National Assembly, is cashing in a few more chips. On April 19, Sandinista and Liberal lawmakers combined to pass a law reducing the prison term for money laundering to five years, which Alem?n conveniently will complete next December...