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...stand-up comedian Paula Poundstone in 2001, when she was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol with her adopted children in the car. Allegations of child abuse were later dropped, and she pleaded guilty to a felony charge of child endangerment, was sentenced to probation and spent six months in a rehab facility. She's back on the stand-up circuit and is out with a book, There's Nothing in This Book That I Meant to Say (Harmony), in which she talks about her legal problems - and many other things - through the lives of historical characters, from...
...less important obstacles to democratization than is its oil wealth. “Where oil exists it’s very difficult to talk about democratization,” said Aghazadeh. “There’s a problem of transparency and openness. Oil money has been spent neither for democratization nor social welfare.” Azerbaijan is part of a region too often overlooked, said to John Schoeberlein, a lecturer on anthropology and the director of the Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus, which sponsored Aghazadeh’s lecture. “We don?...
...book “Now They Call Me Infidel: Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel, and the War on Terror,” released this month, further details the 30 years she spent in the Middle East and her opinions on Jihad...
...have also spent considerable time using my new webcam to take photos of myself in various “jockish” poses. Sure, if you visit my facebook page, you’ll notice that half of my pictures are of me in drag (be sure to see Hasty Pudding this year, it’s faaaabulous!), but this doesn’t mean I haven’t taken a few shots of myself humorlessly glaring at the camera, awkwardly forming my lips into some sort of porno-star sneer in a disturbing attempt at whatever I think...
...most bizarre case, British authorities arrested Pinochet in London in 1998 on an arrest warrant issued from Spain - where prosecutors wanted to try him for allegedly ordering the execution of leftist Spaniards living in Chile in the 1970s. He was eventually released back to Chile, but he spent his last years in a virtual prison of legal assaults and deteriorating health. In October a Chilean judge ordered Pinochet under house arrest on charges related to human rights atrocities at Villa Grimaldi, a detention center outside Santiago run by Pinochet's vicious secret police...