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...there have been thousands," he sighs. But Yoder was different. "He's extraordinary in the amount of information he amassed," says Szasz. The psychiatrist was impressed that Yoder had tried to go to prison rather than Chester, since Szasz has argued for decades that it's more humane to imprison lawbreakers for a set number of years rather than forcibly treat them in a mental hospital indefinitely...
...Fifth, use the full power of your security and intelligence forces to destroy the headquarters and weapons of terrorist organizations and to arrest and imprison their leaders. If you lack the capacity to do so, allow Israel Defense Forces to conduct targeted strikes based on your intelligence...
...Next up to the plate is Judge Melinda Harmon, the Houston jurist whose most recently famous for her July decision to imprison crime writer Vanessa Leggett when she refused to turn over notes to the feds in a Houston murder case. Harmon, a Radcliffe grad who got her law degree at the University of Texas at Austin, had Leggett imprisoned for more than five months without bail. The writer got out of jail only this month...
...news value in Mohsen Makhmalbaf's tale of a woman crossing the desert incognito to find her sister. Even without the headlines, this Iranian film boasts a visual and emotional magnificence. It has a painter's acute eye for beauty within horror: the gorgeous colors of the burkas that imprison Afghan women; the handsome face of a child in a Taliban school as he expertly assembles a Kalashnikov rifle; the vision of one-legged men scrambling to retrieve prostheses dropped in parachutes from a plane. This is scoop journalism and heartbreaking poetry...
...news value in Mohsen Makhmalbaf's tale of a woman crossing the desert incognito to find her sister. Even without the headlines, this Iranian film boasts a visual and emotional magnificence. It has a painter's acute eye for beauty within horror: the gorgeous colors of the burkas that imprison Afghan women; the handsome face of a child in a Taliban school as he expertly assembles a Kalashnikov rifle; the vision of one-legged men scrambling to retrieve prostheses dropped in parachutes from a plane. This is scoop journalism and heartbreaking poetry...