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...first film left off with the brothers, Connor (Sean Patrick Flanery) and Murphy MacManus (Norman Reedus), aided by their fresh-from-prison father (Billy Connolly), and a slick, sharp-tongued FBI agent, Paul Smecker (Willem Dafoe), killing off the head of the Yakavetta crime family in a courtroom. Though they lost their buddy Roc (David Della Rocca), a bumbling, Mafia delivery boy, in the process, they seemed well on their way to completing their mission of eliminating Boston’s “scum”: mobsters, pimps, drug dealers, in short, anyone who offends their sense of right...
...known) does not belong to a foundation but to the ANC." Nor has the foundation always been successful at stopping people from using his name or likeness. Four years ago, the organization tried to block the Belgravia Gallery in London from selling around 100 lithographs of Robben Island - the prison off Cape Town where Mandela was held - which the gallery said had been made and signed by Mandela. The foundation maintains that the works are unauthorized reproductions and that Mandela's signatures are fakes. But Mandela's team failed to prevent the gallery from selling limited editions of several sketches...
...while the government has stepped up the number of arrests on smuggling charges and for watching the videos, it has relaxed sentences for offenders who only do the latter. Ten years ago, that particular crime carried a sentence of five years in a prison camp; today, enemy-propaganda watchers are usually handed a sentence of three months or less of unpaid labor, according to two refugees in Seoul. The shift may not have been an ideological one: Myung, who served in the North Korean police just last year, says that the regime made the decision because it couldn't afford...
...Alex W., who emigrated from Russia in 2003 and was granted German citizenship because he had distant ethnic roots in the country, faces a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted of murder and attempted murder. Prosecutors say he was motivated by deep-rooted racism. "He stabbed [the couple] out of pure hatred against non-Europeans and Muslims. He wanted to kill them," prosecutor Frank Heinrich told the court Monday...
...under the assumed identity of a psychic healer named Dragan Dabic, the world's most wanted fugitive was finally captured in July 2008 and transferred to the International Criminal Tribunal for War Crimes in the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the Hague. He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted...