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...make this one nonfiction, and what was the difference? I started on the book in 2006, only a year after Katrina. Very few of Zeitoun's memories had faded. We made a master calendar - when the water came up, when he was arrested, when he was transferred to the prison. For the most part we were able to independently corroborate all the dates and places and measurements. If Zeitoun said he saw a downed helicopter, I could find out online or through other journalists which helicopter that was. That made working in a strictly nonfiction environment much easier than...
...Reportedly made Phillip Bennett, former chairman of financial-services company Refco, cry during his 2008 trial for fraud. Bennett was sentenced to 16 years in prison for cheating investors out of $2.4 billion. (See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
...love him so much." And then she fell into her aunt Janet's arms, leaving us to wonder, Was this what her father would have wanted? Had they finally escaped from isolation? Or had they, too, now been captured by a spotlight that, for him at least, became a prison...
...failed to turn over key evidence to Moussaoui and his lawyer that might have helped in his defense. As politically untenable as it may seem, President Barack Obama should support Moussaoui's efforts to win another trial. (Check out a story about "Bombers Row" in a Colorado's Supermax Prison...
...respecting the rights of even those who attack them. That's been a key consideration in Obama's moves to roll back many Bush administration policies in the war on terror. During a recent speech in Cairo, the U.S. President explained his decision to close the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison as part of a wider push to reverse extra-legal Bush administration security measures that stomped on long-standing principles of American civil liberty. Seeking to defend fundamental American ideas from attack in that way, Obama noted, "led us to act contrary to our ideals...