Word: prisoners
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...hour of the history of this country,? he said, referring to alliances criticized by Washington. If the U.S. aspired to world leadership, it should set an example by making peace with its enemies, Mandela added. The tone of today?s events -- which included a visit to Robben Island, the prison where Mandela served much of his 27-year sentence -- was mostly positive, with the two leaders showering praise on each other...
SEATTLE: Some advice for budding novelists: Don?t write to the world?s richest man and threaten his life. That?s what office worker and aspiring writer Adam Quinn Pletcher did, and it cost him $250,000 and a possible 20 years in prison after he was found guilty on four counts of extortion Tuesday. ?What I am offering is simple,? Pletcher, 22, wrote Microsoft boss Bill Gates. ?Your life for $5 million.? His letters went on to threaten harm to Gates, his wife, his daughter and colleague Steve Ballmer. In the chat room tradition, Pletcher posed...
...trial. ?It was actually happening as I wrote it.? He added that the letters were to form the basis of a novel inspired by that great Stallone turkey, ?Assassins? -- and that the money would help him open a teetotal nightclub. From now on Pletcher will have to use prison gates, not Bill Gates, for his inspiration...
DIED. JAMES MCDOUGAL, 57, eccentric Arkansas banker and former friend of Bill and Hillary's, who snitched on his business dealings with the Clintons and sparked the ongoing Whitewater investigation; of cardiac arrest; in Fort Worth, Texas, where he was in prison (see Eulogy below...
...scenarios. There's a scene in U.S. Marshals where Gerard catches Sheridan picking his handcuffs off and asks him whether or not he's going to escape because Gerard is busy and can't watch him just now that characterizes the mood of the film. Jones is aboard the prison transport plane because of this stupid public relations reason that his superior all but made up. (Didn't these people see ConAir? Why is it that people have to fly criminals anywhere? It's not like they have anywhere to go in a hurry.) When asked whether...