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...months Prison term a woman in Japan recently received for blasting music at her neighbor 24 hours...
...easier to understand the pardon when you reckon with the prayers. The question of what to do about Nixon landed hard on Ford from moment he was sworn in. Apart from everything else, Nixon was a longtime friend. Ford worried about what putting the disgraced President in prison would do to him, as well as to a country so shaken by the betrayals of those years. Mercy and healing were very much on Ford's mind on Saturday, Aug. 31, when he spent the morning discussing an amnesty plan for Vietnam draft evaders. When the meeting was over, Ford went...
...December, 2001, Sun Xuede, the man who had been missing for months, was sentenced in a closed trial to eight years in prison for breaking into a government office and embezzling public funds. Sun's family and several of the other elected village leaders dispute the charges, especially since the office he supposedly burglarized...
...jail now." I told him I was very glad - and then didn't know what to say next. Filling the silence, Sun commented on the weather in his Shandong village. It was chilly, he said, but not as cold as it had been in prison...
...they had no information on the Langkawi talks. But other fronts, Surayud has moved quickly to resolve many of the insurgents' grievances. In a series of visits to the embattled region, he has publicly apologized for rights abuses committed by Thaksin's government, and released 58 suspected militants from prison. He has already begun to institute various points of the Langkawi plan, reopening the SBPAC and announcing the formation of a special economic zone to boost development in the impoverished region. The rebel representative who provided the documents to TIME says Surayud's moves won't be enough to restore...