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Michael Kinsley's Essay on Bush's failures fails to take into account legitimate concerns over growing terrorism before the Bush Administration [Jan. 12]. He dismisses the 1993 World Trade Center attack and the 2000 U.S.S. Cole bombing--which killed 17 U.S. sailors--to create the image of a fearmongering Republican President. Kinsley scolds Bush for not keeping his promises, but Kinsley must realize that these circumstances call for extreme measures. Raza Syed Hoda, ITHACA...
...hacking of Twitter account...
Made up of as many as 1,000 adherents of a fundamentalist Mormon sect, Bountiful has been home to clans of polygamists since the arrival in the late 1940s of the homestead's founder, Harold Blackmore, who - according to one account - was drawn to the valley after envisioning it in a dream. Blackmore was part of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which was expelled from mainstream Mormonism in the 1930s. For generations, local farmers co-existed with the polygamists of Bountiful. But this relationship, based on the country tenet "live and let live," grew increasingly...
Indyk, a former U.S. ambassador to Israel, is the author of Innocent Abroad: An Intimate Account of American Peace Diplomacy in the Middle East (Simon & Schuster...
...details of the torture that Bush authorized have been dribbling out over the years in books like Jane Mayer's excellent The Dark Side. But the most definitive official account was released by the Senate Armed Services Committee just before Christmas. Much of the committee's report remains secret, but a 19-page executive summary was published, and it is infuriating. The story begins with an obscure military training program called Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape (SERE), in which various forms of torture are simulated to prepare U.S. special-ops personnel for the sorts of treatment they might receive...