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...Tripoli. Few groups had ever been allowed to speak out publicly against the government, and security forces attempted to disrupt the event. Some Libyans scheduled to attend were blocked from traveling to the capital. Those who addressed the press conference and recounted heartrending tales of relatives killed in prison were shouted down by security officers in the audience, according to news reports. "There is no possibility for real political organizing, so people are chipping away at the corners," says Heba Morayef, North African researcher for Human Rights Watch. Saif, she says, "is the only person who can stand...
Which is more stressful--your summer as a prison guard or running the Census Bureau...
...commercial espionage concluded on March 24. The Shanghai-based employees of the British-Australian mining company, who were arrested in July, confessed to accepting bribes from Chinese steel companies during negotiations over iron-ore prices. With a verdict expected within weeks, they face up to 15 years in prison. Though Rio Tinto will seek to continue to collaborate with Chinese companies, the high-profile case has shed light on the worsening environment for foreign corporations in China...
...church's disrepute, in fact, compels us to consider our religion's virtues more seriously. For starters, it might prod more Catholics to question, say, how Christian it is to heap Vatican-style condemnation on gays and lesbians and yet insist that pedophile priests need forgiveness more than prison time. (See 10 surprising facts about the world's oldest Bible...
...race, and nearly loses Krystle when she suffers a brain tumor and is left in a coma; and, in the last episode, has a shoot-out with a corrupt policeman and is left in a pool of blood. In a reunion movie three years later, Blake is released from prison for the cop's murder, learns that Krystle has come out of her coma and struggles to wrest Denver-Carrington from the oily cartel that has taken it over...