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...that boasts better graphics and new weapons for the first-person shooter. But with the increasing popularity of video games has come a barrage of legislation targeted at keeping games like “Halo 3” out of the hands of impressionable youngsters. At the end of August several politicians spoke out about halting the sale of ultra-violent video games to minors. Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D-NY) even claims that legislating against video games is a top priority for his state.In arguing their case, most proponents of a ban on violent games draw parallels with pornography...
...Thursday, and Friday of last week, advancing two rounds past top-flight opponents in the 32-team, single-elimination tournament. The 38th-ranked pair, which usually plays at No. 1 doubles for the Crimson, earned a spot in the tournament by winning the ITA National Summer Championships in early August. In Kumar and Ermakov’s first match, they faced No. 12 Blake Strode and Colin Mascall from Arkansas. Playing nervously early in the match, the Harvard team lost its serve. Down a break at 7-4, Kumar and Ermakov held their serve and then, thanks to poor serving...
...struggling ground between the Mahdi Army and the Badr Brigade, a rival Shi'ite militia also though to have links to Iran. American forces remained on the sidelines as the Mahdi Army and the Badr Brigade waged bloody campaigns against one another across southern Iraq this summer. On August 28, gunmen from the Mahdi Army and the Badr Brigade battled in the streets of Karbala for hours in fighting that left more than 50 people dead. And a series of assassinations of local leaders across southern Iraq in recent months is widely thought to be a campaign by the Mahdi...
...Saturday, August 13, 2005, at 4:30 a.m., the ring of my red phone woke me in Eliot House. I didn’t know who the caller was, but he told me to guess. I threw out a name, and he confirmed it. We talked for a few minutes, then I excused myself and went back...
...particularly tough interrogation tactics, White House spokesperson Dana Perino said, "The bottom line is that we do not use torture." When Congress and the White House battled over detainee rights in 2006, Vice President Dick Cheney argued that techniques like simulated drowning didn't amount to torture. And last August, after the New Yorker reported the latest in a string of private memos sent to the U.S. government by the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) asserting that U.S. interrogation techniques were "tantamount to torture", President Bush said curtly, "We don't torture...