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...SENTENCED. PHAM HONG SON, 34, Vietnamese doctor and cyberdissident; to 13 years in jail on espionage charges; in Hanoi. Son was convicted of spying for e-mailing other dissidents and Vietnamese in exile, as well as for posting an essay titled "What Is Democracy" translated from a U.S. State Department website. He is one of at least five cyberdissidents imprisoned in Vietnam in the past two years...
...horrors of totalitarianism. Yet many of those students haven't a clue who Orwell really was. Oh, they may know that his name was actually Eric Blair, or that he was English and died pathetically young. But the sheer immensity of his work - 2 million words of fiction, reportage, essays, poems and reviews - and the tantalizing contradictions of his life are today largely unknown to the rising generation. That may soon change. The centenary of Orwell's birth this week - he was born June 25, 1903, in Motihari, India, where his father was an opium agent for the British...
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