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...years piled up fast. Sixty-five years in prison each for 14 former student activists. Twenty-and-a-half years for a blogger. Twelve-and-a-half years for a labor leader. Six-and-a-half years for five Buddhist monks. Two years for a poet. In the space of just three days this week, more than 30 Burmese were sentenced to prison or hard labor by the country's ruling junta, a chilling legal onslaught that sent a clear message to other potential dissidents: speak out, and get used to life in a prison cell...
...many kids are snorkeling in Mongolia, you still are neither funny nor interesting enough to draw people to your party without the prospect of a drunken hook-up. So steal an empty bottle of Grey Goose from your rich neighbor’s recycleing bin and pour your prison-inspired, fermented grapefruit juice moonshine into it. Freshman biddies eat that stuff...
...President, I will close Guantánamo," Barack Obama promised in 2007. Now, as President-elect, shutting down the infamous prison camp he referred to as a "sad chapter in American history" is shaping up as one of his first priorities...
...People forget that prison officers are victims as well," says Waterworth, who dismisses the unsympathetic portrayal of his colleagues in Hunger as "propaganda." "People here don't want to see terrorists being honored. Are we going to end up putting up shrines where everyone died...
...Italian Prime Minister thinking three years ago when he credited his own "playboy" powers for persuading Finland's female prime minister to agree that a key European Union agency be accorded to Italy? And what prompted him to compare a German member of the European Parliament to a Nazi prison guard, or to flash two fingers of the cuckold behind the head of the Spanish foreign minister during the family photo at a European summit...