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...long-entrenched techniques his group tries to change: "After 9/11, military interrogators focused on two techniques: fear and control. The Army trained their 'gators to confront and dominate prisoners. This led down the disastrous path to the Abu Ghraib scandal. At Guantánamo Bay, the early interrogators not only abused the detainees, they tried to belittle their religious beliefs. I'd heard stories from a friend who had been there that some of the 'gators even tried to convert prisoners to Christianity. These approaches rarely yielded results ... My group is among the first to bring a new approach...
...audience. Faust mentioned this achievement, which she referred to as “perchance his most legendary achievement,” in her speech, and described the section of his Senate Web site biography that details his famous touchdown and the subsequent offer to play for the Green Bay Packers. “Fortunately for all of us not from Wisconsin, he turned them down,” she said, telling the audience that he told the Green Bay coach he wanted to “‘go into another contact sport, politics...
...third period saw the most action overall, starting with a goal at 2:43 from Minnesota’s Rachael Drazan. The Gophers continued to crank up the physicality, giving Harvard multiple opportunities to come back on power plays. But a strong Minnesota defense held the Crimson at bay until junior defender Kathryn Farni, assisted by classmate Cori Bassett, broke through on the power play at 12:21, tying the game at 2-2. “I think that we came out firing,” Kessler said. “I think there were bad officiating calls that...
Near Racine, Wis., Scouts just sold a camp for $7 million - they'd been trying to unload it for years due to a lack of use. In New York, 65 acres along the Great Peconic Bay was sold in 2006 because girls just weren't attending camp. In New Jersey, three councils merged into a single group with six camps - two of which weren't being used much. Those two probably won't operate next summer, says Mary Connell, CEO of Girl Scouts of Central and Southern New Jersey, which will do a cost-benefit analysis of all the region...
...When you go to Guantanamo, where do you stay? We stay on one side of the bay in a military motel. Every morning, we get on a ferry and go across Guantanamo Bay and we're picked up and taken to the prison camp on the other side...