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...patient, he turned out to be about as hateful as anyone I've ever met. They took him away to Shattuck, the prison hospital, the next day. But he kept his leg. We eventually learned the trouble started with an innocent accident: a third party had backed up into his Cadillac and a heated but non-violent argument ensued. When an unmarked police cruiser pulled up, Cadillac man jumped into his car and took off. Yes, the cops probably could have let this one go too, as the token sucker story reminded me. The feeling was now familiar...
...Shakespearean dimensions," says David Berg, a Houston attorney who authored The Trial Lawyer: What it Takes to Win. "His fall from power was so great that it just destroyed him. In some ways, you would think that Ken Lay would rather have died than spent a moment in prison." Lay, who was awaiting sentencing in the fall, faced imprisonment for possibly the rest of his life. "On some subconscious level, it's a polite form of suicide. He was not going to let himself be imprisoned...
...situation is not easy. It's not like a country like England, where you have a government with full domination of powers and control [over] every centimeter. Gaza is like a big prison. We are surrounded by Israeli troops from the sea, from the air. They daily make air raids and assassination and killing people. We have people who want to act, to retaliate...
...worst of the worst" was the Bush Administration's description of the type of combatant who ends up at Gitmo. But a Seton Hall University study culled from the government's own data found that only 8% of the camp's prisoners were actually fighters for al-Qaeda. More than half were not determined to have committed any hostile act against Americans or their allies. Even Salim Ahmed Hamdan, the detainee at the center of the Supreme Court case, was Osama bin Laden's chauffeur and bodyguard--hardly the criminal mastermind that requires a country to create a maximum security...
...Numbers $12,500 Fine Chinese journalists could face for publicizing "sudden events" like riots, strikes and natural disasters without permission, under a proposed law 32 Number of journalists in prison in China as of December 2005, the most in any country...