Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...collect call--from an inmate at a local prison," Appel says, explaining that his caller rushed to request a song before the operator disconnected the call...
That's the trouble with letting your imagination off its leash. An untrammeled imagination--an imagination of true, unblinking clarity--drives home an uncomfortable point: it is always in some sense unfair for people to send other people to prison. There go all of us but for the grace...
...course, as a practical matter, we have to send people to prison. So the moral imagination, followed to its logical conclusion, short-circuits, becoming its own reductio ad absurdum. It begins by extending our empathy to Clinton but in the end leaves us weighing his fate without dwelling on his frailty, because if human frailty were an excuse, the streets would be full of robbers...
...criminal hackers use, in which she compares them to terrorists. Meinel says every Internet-access provider she has used has been attacked, but she was surprised at the latest action. "Frankly, I didn't expect them to hack the New York Times," she says. "Now they'll go to prison...
...came swiftly after Supreme Leader ALI KHAMENEI's "final notice" to government officials to curtail press freedom. Indefatigable Tous editor MAHMOUD SHAMSOLVAEZIN had managed to get his paper back on the streets after two previous closures, once by changing its original name, Jameyeh. But last week he was in prison with four Tous colleagues, facing a revolutionary trial. There was no word from Khatami...