Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...frustration with the progress of capitalism, but at the same time, fantasies portray its benefits. For instance, one finds a cautionary note about the human search for utopia in the movie "Appleseed", where a world programmed to be perfect through scientific advances becomes as much of a prison as the pre-utopia world of toil and strife...
...continued to write while in prison on books smuggled in to him, on cigarette packs and on toilet paper. On these notes he based several publications, including The Man Died (1972) which was banned in Nigeria...
...suicide is not a sin. Russian authorities are worried that he may urge his followers on a final binge. In the former Soviet lands, law enforcement has handled cults in the old Russian way, with truncheons and bars. Some have been banned. Last year a court in Kiev gave prison terms to leaders of the White Brotherhood, including its would-be messiah, Marina Tsvigun...
...control on Social Security numbers, Hersch started using real numbers to perpetrate the same scam. All told, he filed 431 false electronic returns claiming refunds of $1,131,241. He was nabbed after the IRS raided his office in 1993, and is serving five years in a federal prison. No one knows how many folks pulled off this ruse, but it is safe to say that most were never caught...
What a strange moment. In a meeting room in a Nashville, Tennessee, prison hospital, the youngest son of Martin Luther King Jr. sat face to face with James Earl Ray, the man serving 99 years for murdering the civil rights leader. It could have been in a movie. And maybe it will...