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...life"), then says he's content to let people decide for themselves. He also argues that modern French thinkers aren't so different from past generations. "The great intellectuals of the '50s and '60s, the structuralists, kept a certain distance, but often also became engaged - as Foucault did about prison conditions, and Derrida on capital punishment," he says. And he's unapologetic about his use of the media to promote his work. "When I returned from Bangladesh in 1971 and wrote of the horrors I saw there, I obeyed all the rules back then for [an] intellectual with a book...
CONVICTED. CHARLES GRANER, 36, Army Reserve specialist and reputed ringleader of a group of abusive guards at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison; on all five charges of assault, conspiracy, maltreatment of detainees, committing indecent acts and dereliction of duty; in the first trial arising from the international scandal that broke with the release of photos showing U.S. soldiers gleefully torturing prisoners; in Fort Hood, Texas. Jurors rejected the defense's claim that Graner was just following orders and sentenced him to 10 years in prison with a demotion to private...
...already in trouble when he entered a federal courtroom in Madison, Wis., two years ago for a sentencing hearing. A jury had found Booker, 51, guilty of possessing 3 oz. of crack cocaine, with the intention to distribute, which meant he was facing at least 10 years in prison. But when prosecutors informed the judge that Booker had told cops after his arrest that he had previously sold more than a pound of crack, his situation quickly went from bad to worse. Because of that evidence, which was never presented to the jury, the judge had little choice...
...restrictive guidelines under which he was sentenced are unconstitutional. Even if his sentence is reduced, Booker is still facing some 20 years behind bars. But his case will have an impact on the 60,000 defendants sentenced in federal courts each year, and it calls into question the prison terms of many of the 180,000 people in federal cells--everyone from crack dealers to Martha Stewart...
...religion, along with Iran and North Korea. Leaders of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam, which Nhat Hanh left to form his own Zen sect, have been under house arrest for most of the last 20 years. In November, authorities sentenced a Mennonite pastor to three years in prison. Evangelical Christians in the Central Highlands have seen church leaders arrested and at least one church burned down, according to advocacy group Human Rights Watch, which released a report last week saying authorities rounded up dozens of evangelicals. (Hanoi hotly denies those accusations...