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...original idea came from HBO's successful drama Oz, which focuses on a U.S. high security prison. The writers also based some of the story on real-life events and characters, drawing most of the inspiration from Mexico City's infamous Santa Marta women's prison. The result is a series that is as grim, bloody and chaotic as actual Latin American prisons; it is world where children live with their mothers behind bars until they are six, where corruption is rife and where killings are commonplace. But aside from portraying the misery of prison life, the producers also aimed...
...Perhaps partly as a result of the careful build-up, department heads have been guarded about offering their opinions of Smith’s project. Since the announcement, The Crimson issued repeated requests for comment to 17 active members of FAS who served as chairs in 2005. Only one responded with an on-the-record statement...
...activities of the giant Samsung group of companies, with dozens of affiliates in insurance, securities, heavy industry, chemicals and even hotels. Samsung wields tremendous economic and political influence in South Korea. Its companies account for some 20% of the nation's exports. The charges against Lee are a result of an investigation started after a former Samsung counsel accused the group late last year of operating a slush fund to bribe politicians and bureaucrats. (Lee, however, wasn't charged with bribery...
...This has been a long time coming,” Fuller said, referring to the changes made as a result of the competition...
...Professor Hag Ateya Elteyb, director of the Peace Research Institute at Khartoum University, says the government has been unable to maintain its hard line in the face of the growing number of outside influences arriving in the country as a result of its oil boom, and also because of the Darfur crisis. "Now we have more and more foreigners and investors, there's a new thing happening very slowly as the government relaxes because of these groups," he says. "I don't know if it's good or bad, but the repressive element is going...