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...None was more adept than Jacques-Louis David, sobered from his radical Jacobin passion by a spell in prison following the fall of Robespierre....
...During the previous administration, he clashed with members of Mr Obama’s cabinet over its plans to close the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and he rejected criticism about the treatment of detainees...
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...In fact, going to prison nowadays is quite optional if you are a very high-ranking vor, because of ties with the state....
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...Mr Usmanov did spend six years in prison in Soviet times, following allegations of fraud, but after his conviction was overturned he emerged as a Gazprom executive in the 1990s....
...Sleek, prosperous Perth has a preening, purring feel to it: every inch the recession-beating Aussie state capital....
...The court met on Friday to discuss whether to hear El-Masri v US, a case of mistaken identity involving a German citizen who claims he was held for months and tortured at a secret prison in Afghanistan,...
...Kimbrough v United States is a challenge to a federal court ruling that a sentence of up to 22 years required by current guidelines was too harsh in the case of a Gulf war veteran who had been found with...
...But there was another aspect to the prison....
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