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...like the first chewy taste of goat stew or the unceremonious clank of earrings dropped straight onto floor tiles. The film is frank, unassuming, and gently witty. In a soft and steady voice, it speaks volumes about the power of chance in finding love.The movie begins when the obnoxious Al Lolly (John Goodman) purchases a $14,000 Swedish mattress in the warehouse where shy 28-year-old Brian Weathersby (Paul Dano, “There Will Be Blood”) works as a salesman. Later in the day, his airy daughter “Happy” (Zooey Deschanel...
...special agent who came in from the cold - and waded straight into the debate over the use of harsh interrogation techniques. Ali Soufan, a former FBI special agent and perhaps the most successful U.S. interrogator of al-Qaeda operatives, says the use of those techniques was unnecessary and often counterproductive. Detainees, he says, provided vital intelligence under non-violent questioning, before they were put through "walling" and waterboarding...
...over the CIA's techniques lies, not just in whether they constituted torture, but in whether or not they worked: did detainees like Abu Zubaydah - the first to go through the controversial coercive interrogation program - give up vital information? Defenders of the program have claimed that Abu Zubaydah, an al-Qaeda recruiter and close associate of Osama bin Laden, did provide crucial information, including the identities of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of 9/11, and "dirty bomber" Jose Padilla. (See six ways...
...declassified Justice Department memos, former CIA director Michael Hayden asserts that it was only after the waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah that authorities learned about Ramzi Binalshibh, a midlevel al-Qaeda member who helped coordinate the Sept. 11 attacks. The memos also say it was because of the waterboarding of Mohammed that U.S. intelligence learned about a "second wave" of attacks planned for after Sept. 11. Was there truly another 9/11 in the works? Maybe. Or maybe Mohammed made it up to stop the waterboarding...
...resold at the beginning of each school year. The award comes at a time when Harvard is elevating the profile of its green programs, committing to greenhouse gas reductions this summer and staging a Sustainability Week in the fall, which featured an address from former Vice President Al Gore ’69 and banners declaring “Green Is The New Crimson.” Spring Greeney ’09 and Zach Arnold ’10 of the Environmental Action Committee said they nominated Gogan for the award because of his enthusiasm for environmental issues...