Word: prisoners
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...Skip the Movies and Rent a Video feature of the week? On a lean Friday for theatrical releases, it's easy: "Instinct." Starring Anthony Hopkins as a homicidal anthropologist in prison for acting like an animal and Cuba Gooding Jr. as his across-the-table Clarice Starling, this is directly targeted at the I-can't-wait-for-Hannibal-the-sequel crowd. Instead, stay home with the fava beans, the Chianti and "Silence of the Lambs." That's one option -- "Manimal" reruns are another -- but for hairy hearts of darkness, why not skip right to "King Kong...
...significance of the study, researchers say, is the surprising degree to which employment opportunities have improved the overall life chances of black inner-city residents, even those with prison records...
...senior writer Eric Pooley. "By their action, the legislature has voted to choose intelligent inquiry over politics." Beyond the question of race, Nebraska legislators also voted to find out what socioeconomic factors distinguish the state?s 10 death row inmates from its 165 other murderers who were sentenced to prison instead. Opponents of the death penalty believe the loosening of many procedural safeguards by the U.S. Supreme Court over the years has increased the possibility of arbitrariness in decisions involving the death sentence. The fact that a middle-American state such as Nebraska could be on the verge of exploring...
...Jackson appealed to Syrian dictator Hafez al-Assad to release a Navy pilot that had been shot down over Lebanon. A few months later he went to Cuba to meet with Fidel Castro and arrange for the liberation of prison inmates. In the months preceding the Gulf War he met with Saddam Hussein to negotiate the release of foreigners being held there. In all these cases, his success in aiding the individuals in need must be appreciated. But at what cost are such victories...
...AMERICAN SOLDIERS HAVE BEEN OUT OF A KOSOVO PRISON FOR 2,640 MINUTES...