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Severely disturbed children were like prisoners, he proposed, echoing his earlier article; they were immured in "mortal anxiety" and overwhelmed by hostile circumstances, above all by their rejecting mothers.
· Rebels ambushed the train and took several prisoners.
Once the prisoners stage their inevitable coup, blow away a few guards, and install their own wild-man pilot, the movie gives them little to do except fly the unfriendly skies.
Among the 80,000 prisoners employed by private companies for a fraction of the minimum wage are TWA's reservation takers and Microsoft's software boxers.
The White House spin: Clemency is about justice, and the prisoners' punishments did not fit their crimes.