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...reports about the treatment of suspected terrorists at Guantánamo Bay are deeply disturbing [July 10]. The practice of restraining a person in a padded chair in order to force-feed him via a nasogastric tube is revolting. As a doctor, I am shocked that our government would abuse someone in such a way; as a Muslim, I am frightened that presumed religious fundamentalists have been so psychologically and physically tortured that they have tried to kill themselves (suicide, according to Islam, sends one straight to hell); and as a U.S. citizen, I am upset and find it morally...
...continuing to detain those no longer facing regular questioning. But then Guantánamo has more to do with blind revenge and the display of unlimited power than with obtaining justice. The best way for Americans to fix Gitmo would be to close it and return Guantánamo Bay, a remnant of colonial imperialism, to Cuba. Jean-Paul Debattice Brussels...
...YORK—The basketball court of Kips Bay Towers is an asphalt oasis in Murray Hill, a chain-linked refuge where a scuffed backboard, once pristine white, hangs as a canvas of missed lay-ups and passed time...
...simply chosen to reapply our leisure time. Collectively, we have somehow found ourselves relocated to—dare I say it—more “adult” venues: bars, other cities, and less familiar blocks within our sprawling hometown. Unconsciously, we left Kips Bay to embrace the idea of doing new things with other people: other friends, complete strangers, and our classmates and roommates from college...
...jobs, men run the show—women are merely the servile hard workers.Not so for the lone female traveler. As a woman making my own decisions and paying my own way, I was awarded a quasi-male status. So, on a boat between island and shore in HaLong Bay, I was invited to share a meal with the dozen other passengers, all males. Glasses brimming with beer and vodka were passed around and repeatedly refilled. Tureens of steaming fish arrived and disappeared into empty stomachs. They kept raising random toasts to nothing—over twenty in all. Only...