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...casual conversation with law colleagues, Nouman said the fateful words, "There's no justice in this country." Someone informed the police, and within hours she was arrested for contempt of court. Taken to al-Zafaraniya police station, she was, she says, brutally beaten for several days in a row, raped and had a hot candle forced into her rectum. "I kept telling the police, 'You can't do this to me. I'm a lawyer,'" she says, smiling sadly at her own naivete. "They said, 'Once you become an enemy of Uday, you are nothing...
...barbed wire hangs over the yard. The cells, now empty, are deceptively light and airy. "When they were full, I could only sit like this," says Nouman, crouching against a wall and pulling her knees against her chest. Set off from the main courtyard is a row of isolation cells. She spent several weeks in one, and hesitates before entering it now. It is relatively big for an isolation cell, 15 ft. by 10 ft., with one small barred window close to the ceiling and no toilet. ("I had to make pee-pee and ca-ca in the same room...
...politics that when it comes to health care, the safest route for a candidate is to talk small--or not at all. And if there's anyone who should know enough to stay away from the subject, it's former House minority leader Dick Gephardt, who had a front-row seat when Bill Clinton's health-care plan collapsed in 1994. But that, Gephardt says, is precisely why he's betting his presidential campaign on a costly plan to provide health care to the 41 million Americans who now lack it. Why does Gephardt think his proposal can succeed where...
...Gottschall score was the fourth of six in a row that resulted in a tie or lead change. The previous two Crimson goals—both McBride first-quarter tallies—brought Harvard back from a 1-0 deficit...
...casual conversation with law colleagues, Nouman said the fateful words, "There's no justice in this country." Someone informed the police, and within hours she was arrested for contempt of court. Taken to al-Zafaraniya police station, she was, she says, brutally beaten for several days in a row, raped and had a hot candle forced into her rectum. "I kept telling the police, 'You can't do this to me. I'm a lawyer,'" she says, smiling sadly at her own naiveté. "They said, 'Once you become an enemy of Uday, you are nothing...