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Santos has said he’s not guilty of anything that he’s charged with and does not plan to resign, which is great, and is probably what he will continue to say, even in the event that he is convicted, until a large cane pulls him away from a press conference on the Capitol steps into a jail cell.

“The situation in some areas, as in northern Sao Paulo, is critical. I don’t remember seeing such a prolonged dry weather,” Vitor Campanelli, a large cane farmer and supplier to French group Tereos in Brazil, said.

In January, Badawi was taken in handcuffs and shackles to a square outside a mosque in Jidda, where a first round of 50 lashes were administered with a large cane, according to the London-based rights group Amnesty International.

There’s no detectable air conditioning, and while I stagger in from the street puce of face and clammy of brow, Stone, as befits a pampered scion of Hollywood, is sitting calmly in a breeze that wafts through the window, peering around the wing of a large cane armchair.

A crowd gathered as a security officer approached from behind and started to beat Badawi with a large cane, according to an unidentified witness quoted by the London-based rights group Amnesty International.