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...heard of office buildings and farmhouses being turned into hotels - but we had never heard of converting prisons. And yet the interior architecture of a penitentiary should be well suited to low-budget accommodation - just think how efficiently large numbers of inmates are housed[an error occurred while processing this directive] within and are briskly transferred from cell to dining hall. There were certainly no design problems at Hostel Celica, hostelcelica.com, a onetime military prison in Ljubljana effortlessly transformed into one of the most fashionable places to stay in the Slovenian capital...
...report on Guantánamo Bay prompted readers to voice their concerns about the dubious nature of prison-based intelligence and the damage the prison does to the U.S.'s image abroad The reports about the treatment of suspected terrorists at Guantánamo Bay are deeply disturbing [July 10]. The practice of restraining a person in a padded chair in order to force-feed him via a nasogastric tube is revolting. As a doctor, I am shocked that our government would abuse someone in such a way; as a Muslim, I am frightened that presumed religious fundamentalists have been...
...this man, Samir Kuntar, the sole surviving member of the cell, that Hizballah leader Hasan Nasrallah promised to liberate this year from an Israeli prison by kidnapping Israeli soldiers to hold as a bargaining chip, an act Hizballah pulled off two weeks ago, precipitating the current fighting across the Israel-Lebanon border. Smadar Haran, meanwhile, has found herself again directly affected by the conflict, albeit in a much milder way. Nahariya is just five miles from the border with Lebanon and was the target of many of the rockets Hizballah has fired into Israeli towns since Israel launched its bombardment...
...meeting quietly telling a colleague that Tony Blair was an "imbecile" and "a complete d___head." Canadian PM Jean Chretien annoyed his American neighbors with some careless tittle-tattle at a 1997 NATO summit in Madrid. "In your country and my country, all the American politicians would be in prison because they sell their votes," he told Belgian leader Jean-Luc Dehaene and, unwittingly, Canadian broadcaster CBC. In 1993, British PM John Major had finished a TV interview but tapes were still running when he vented his anger against three Euro-skeptic rebels in his Cabinet. He called them "bastards...
...found guilty, Thomas faces punishments ranging from fines to prison time...