A Brazilian Convict’s Path From Poverty to ‘a Very Dark Place’: ‘”This is a shadowy place,” Mr. Dias said, stirring from his
reverie. “Fear lives inside every prisoner. Anyone who
denies that is lying. Fear of the violence. Fear of this
all-male darkness. Fear you will never get out. But I talk to
God every day and ask him to see me through.”‘[New York Times]
Daily Archives: 29 Apr 00
Mikhail Gorbachev Warns The US Of Its Dangerous “Superiority Complex” ‘and said that, if the 21st century became known as the second “American
Century”, the rest of the world would have suffered.
Speaking in New York, the former Soviet President criticised Madeleine Albright, the US
Secretary of State, for saying that there were exceptional circumstances in which the US
had the right to use military force unilaterally, even if other countries objected.’