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...Sadly, the missteps in the handling of the War on Terror—most notably, the interrogation techniques used at Abu Ghraib and the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay??have been extremely damaging to the perception of America both at home and abroad. While many Washington insiders have been less than forthright about their stance on the controversial interrogation techniques, we believe now just as we did then that waterboarding is torture, and should never be condoned or practiced by the U.S. The Bush administration, however, has had no qualms with trying to pull the wool over...
...character across the room,” says Cep, acknowledging the difficulty of the task she has set for herself. But Cep has found a way to mix work with pleasure: Cep’s novel is set in her childhood home—the Eastern Shore of Chesapeake Bay??and last summer she spent two months fishing, crabbing and talking to the locals as thesis research...
...College Students Helping America.” The rosy report found that volunteering increased by 20 percent from 2002 to 2005, representing 600,000 more students dedicating their time to civic engagement. Some colleges—Elon University, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, and California State University, Monterey Bay??will receive the first President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll awards for exemplary civic contributions. Others will receive awards for their hurricane relief efforts...
Proponents of ANWR drilling have been improperly minimizing the effects of oil development for years. They like to cite the growth of the caribou herd at Prudhoe Bay??a Northern Alaska drilling site that has been open for business since 1977—where caribou wander daily through industrial sites. But they ignore evidence that total herd growth is sustained by the females whose fecundity is least affected by industrialization. For the shrinking ANWR caribou herds, the impact of drilling on fertility could sound a death knell. Drilling proponents like to point to the small physical footprint...
Additionally, Armageddon is an important piece of art. Bay??s neo-baroque aesthetic prioritizes the primacy of visual language over plodding dialogue. For example, instead of commenting on current debates in the field of cosmology, Bay sends a small asteroid flying into Grand Central Station. Brilliant...