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...hatchery in Sydney. They belong to different Labor factions, even sub-factions. They come from various parts of Sydney (God's own Sutherland Shire, the hommos belt of Canterbury-Bankstown) and the state (the whitebread Hunter and Central Coast regions). Variously Roman Catholics, Orthodox Christians or Jews, who presumably barrack for the Dragons, Knights, Sharks, Roosters and Bulldogs, they are a mix of lawyers, engineers and political hacks...
...service that succeeded the KGB). He has twice been locked in solitary confinement, once for being in possession of a copy of camp regulations published in a newspaper, and once for having a cup of tea with Alexander Kuchma, 22, occupant of the neighboring bed in his 100-person barrack. These charges, says Khodorkovsky lawyer Yuri Schmidt, enable the authorities to deny the prisoner a more lenient regime and eventual parole. (Indeed, state prosecutors still threaten to press money laundering charges that could add another decade to Khodorkovsky's prison term.) But on Wednesday, a Krasnokamensk court ruled his first...
...slashed with a cobbler's knife by a fellow prisoner, later identified as Kuchma. "I wanted to cut his eye out," Kuchma said, when interrogated by the camp administration. "But my hand slipped." Kuchma said he assaulted Khodorkovsky because he was afraid of an imminent transfer to a different barrack, where he would have been in trouble with other prisoners - he hoped the assault would result in his being placed in solitary confinement until the transfer situation dissipates. After the assault, he was indeed sent to solitary confinement for ten days. A source in the Federal Penitentiary Agency (FSIN) told...
...country calls itself democratic, but President Alexander Lukashenko, in power for 11 years, runs it like the last dictatorship in Europe and brooks no challenges to his neo-Stalinist rule. That's why Statkevich, 49, leader of the opposition Social Democratic party, found himself confined to a prison barrack in the town of Baranovichi, 120 km west of Minsk, the nation's capital. Last March, the government sentenced him to three years of forced labor for "resisting the authorities and obstructing traffic" during a protest in October 2003. So now Statkevich rises to the dawn sound of reveille, submits...
...serve at lieutenants' sides--who keep the green young officers from making deadly mistakes. The skills needed for leading enlisted troops, who are often older or from lower incomes or rougher cultures than the cadets, is a constant teaching mission. The academy places an NCO in every company barrack, both to mentor and to act as leadership guinea pigs. But the future leaders of the Army are being auditioned in Iraq now--which is why Zielinski is eager to get to the front. "I'm tired of waiting, of hearing what we're going to do," he says. "I just...