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Andrej Dynko, editor of Nasha Niva, one of the last remaining independent newspapers in Belarus, was arrested on 21 March, two days after the Belarusan election, while attempting to bring food to demonstrators camped in October Square in Minsk. They were protesting the election victory of incumbent president Alaksandr Lukashenko. Along with many others taking part in the protests, Dynko was sentenced to ten days in prison for 'hooliganism'. On the night of 27/28 March, he wrote his 'Letter from a prison in Minsk' from which we print the following excerpts

Drawing on affective events theory, we examined why and when self-sacrificial leadership motivates followers to engage in self-sacrificial behavior. Participants were 371 full-time employees from 91 work teams in multiple organizations located in central China, who completed measures
of self-sacrificial leadership, their own self-sacrificial behavior, positive affect, and environmental uncertainty. The hierarchical linear modeling results indicated that self-sacrificial leadership correlated positively with follower self-sacrificial behavior. In addition, the relationship
between self-sacrificial leadership and follower self-sacrificial behavior was mediated by follower positive affect. Finally, this mediating factor was found to be stronger when the environmental context was highly uncertain compared to when it was steady. The contribution of these results
to theory and management practice is discussed, along with the study limitations and directions for future research.

This article proposes that the French performance artist Orlan, has, by undertaking a series of surgical interventions on her face and body, radically challenged current standards of beauty. By engaging with Judeo-Christian iconography, Greek mythology and French literature in her operations/performances, she has established an oeuvre that aligns her not only with corporeality and the abject body through images of the sacrificial, but also with aberrant body forms associated with the carnival. Although seduced by the rhetoric that surrounds the body in technology, she has turned to excess as a strategy against the benign and controlled nature of the screen, and the media's homogenization of body images. Her new identity, although not extreme, is a site of resistance in a society bent on eliminating forms that threaten the status quo.

Abstract
This is an ethnography among poor migrants from Kerala, India to the Middle East. This study offers insights into how the poor accumulate sacrificial money through sufferings and self-abnegation, and earmark it for consumption in Kerala. The hardships endured to earn the sacrificial money transform it into a sacred object. The phenomena of accumulation, earmarking, and meaning making of sacrificial money by the poor can be understood through the concept of sacrificial work. Sacrificial work is a spatially demarcated circuit of accumulation of money through hardships and its conflict-ridden transfer to family, community, and self for consumption. In sacrificial work, the poor erect a boundary around this money, and earmark it as caring, communal, and transformative. By delineating the various aspects of sacrificial work, this study brings to the center a behavior that has, in spite of its ubiquity, been relegated to the margins of consumer research.

This article reexamines television sporting heroes in the light of the myths that accompany their stereotypical images. It considers briefly the pressures that encourage broadcasters to build the most successful athletes into stars and addresses some of the main constituents propagated in such figures. The elaborate ceremonies mounted in the stadium for the Barcelona Olympics are reviewed so as to focus on a central myth on which those presentations touched. And an account is given of the manner in which the television channels received in Britain mediated these performances. The article concludes by arguing that, despite the evidence provided by the Barcelona ceremonies, the vestiges of certain ancient myths still have an animating function in television's routine sports coverage.