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Twenty-two CIA agents who were convicted by a Milan court on Wednesday of kidnapping an Egyptian cleric are unlikely to spend any time in prison. The verdict, announced by Milan judge Oscar Magi, is only the first step in the labyrnthine Italian legal system, and the government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has shown no desire to pursue the case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIA Agents Convicted in Italy Unlikely to Serve Time | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

...that any country would step on the U.S.'s toes," says DiBenedetto. Berlusconi was also Prime Minister in 2003; neither he nor Romano Prodi, who was Prime Minister from 2006 to 2008, sought to extradite the CIA defendants. Berlusconi is unlikely to press for them to be put in prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIA Agents Convicted in Italy Unlikely to Serve Time | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

...real leather is used (Jakim sets her hair to the task), but Jampol’s grimaces and cries express such a mix of pain and pleasure that it is hard to believe that no one is getting hurt. Standing, arms and legs outstretched in the middle of the prison, she is at once physically bound and liberated in her speech. “Now I see where the revolution is leading—to the withering of individual Man, the slow merging to uniformity,” she says, echoing the pains of the war. I almost fell...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Marat’ Overflows with Potential | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

...could address the problems raised by “The Wire.” Bobo spoke of the “the disastrous consequences of the war on drugs” and the need to reassess incarceration policy at a time when one in nine black men are in prison, often for crimes that would not have resulted in a jail term for a white person. “We need to ask ourselves, did it reduce crime? And did it make us all safer...

Author: By Grace E. Jackson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘The Wire’ Lays It On the Line | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

...official complaints and fines in recent years in multiple states. At one so-called Madoff auction held this fall in West Palm Beach, Fla. - a community hard hit by Madoff, who once owned houses and other property in nearby Palm Beach and who is now serving a 150-year prison sentence for his massive Ponzi scheme - many potential bidders exited fuming. "They all thought it was Madoff stuff, and it's not; it's from all over," an attendee told a local television station. A couple weeks later, in Naples, Fla., Abadi held another "Madoff" auction at which many bidders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming Soon to Your Town: Fake 'Madoff' Auctions? | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

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