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...structure,” Harris said. The lecture featured a slide show of Harris’ past works, including early self-portraits, collages, and numerous photographs commissioned by the New York Times. He also played a clip of a performance piece about sexual abuse of gay males in prison. The exhibit and lecture were well received by those present. “I think his idea of cosmopolitanism is really important, being a citizen of different urbanities and different modernities. I think it is very layered,” visiting photography professor Catherine B. Lord said of Harris?...
...punishing possession except for the smoker’s own good. Even if smoking has a detrimental effect on one’s life, it can hardly be as harmful as a jail sentence, and the notion that we are helping smokers by arresting them and sending them to prison is patently absurd. The passage of Ballot Question 2 will do much to make state laws more reasonable, but it does not go nearly far enough. While preserving some criminal penalties for possession and maintaining laws against growing and selling the drug may help the ballot measure pass, these laws...
...three-judge panel took less than five minutes to read the guilty verdict and announce that Khem Ngon, 58, Loch Mao, 56, and Puth Lim, 57, would spend the next 20 years in prison after being found guilty of murder, kidnapping and membership in the outlawed Khmer Rouge communist movement. Khmer Rouge leaders were responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.5 million people during Cambodia's infamous "killing fields" period in the 1970s...
...fourth suspect, Sin Dorn, 52, was found guilty and sentenced to 10 years in prison for having assisted in the abduction of Howes and Houn, who were conducting a humanitarian de-mining mission for the UK-based Mines Advisory Group (MAG) when they were taken hostage. A fifth defendant in the case was found not guilty...
...Following their sentencing, the four aging convicts, dressed in blue prison uniforms, sat on stone benches outside the courtroom as they waited to be transported back to jail. Wives, children and relatives who traveled from Anlong Veng for the verdict huddled around the men to say their final farewells. None of the convicted men talked to reporters...