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...Thelen is the top director at the Opus Dei Center. He has silver hair, wire-rimmed glasses and an intense gaze. "Our philosophy is that lay people are in family life, social life and professional life, and we have to make a difference there. Opus Dei gives you a regime to keep in shape, tells you how to do it, and tells you how to help other people do it." But Thelen does not shy away when we ask him why Opus Dei is associated with conservative politics and a secretive agenda. He denies that Opus Dei has any interest...
...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 the Interfax wire agency that afterwards Kuchma would be transferred to another penal colony. Khodorkovsky referred to Kuchma as "unstable...
...extent has provoked this situation himself," Kalinin told the press. "He should not have grown so attached to young prisoners, brought them so close to himself, or been so affectionate to them." Kalinin ordered Khodorkovsky into solitary confinement to ensure his own safety. Following Kalinin's insinuations, the Interfax wire agency quoted an unnamed FSIN source as saying that Kuchma had submitted a written statement accusing Khodorkovsky of sexual harassment. Comments Schmidt: "They have cynically used the assault at Khodorkovsky to isolate him under the excuse of protection, and apply Soviet tactics of character assassination...
...Research, Lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies and Director of Undergraduate Studies Paul Stopforth stops before a piece of his, which is entitled ‘Monument.’ “This is in reference to one of the prisoners, who found a piece of high-tensile wire and, with no tools, created a beautiful blanket pin.” Stopforth pauses, and traces the unbroken line of the object with his hand. “It’s an extraordinary manifestation of how individuals under extreme conditions find a means to express their desire to create...
...lives on the top floor of a three-family building, he'd leaned over his balcony rail to tell me it wasn't safe and that I should come up. Sure enough, minutes later, five protesters sprint around the corner to his street and try to leap a barbed wire fence into an onion garden, quickly followed by 13 Nepalese riot police in full battle gear. One of the fleeing demonstrators, with a student's lanky hair and in a white shirt, catches the bottom of his jeans on the wire and falls, tangled, to the floor. Seven or eight...