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...Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in IraqBy Matthew Alexander with John R. BruningFree Press; 288 pages...
...control and force. Upon their arrival, Alexander and his team are assigned to the search for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the head of al-Qaeda in Iraq, the terrorist organization threatening to plunge the country into a violent civil war. Structured around a series of interrogations, How to Break a Terrorist details the battle of wills between 'gators and suspects as well as the internal fight between Alexander's team and the old-school military inquisitors used to more brutal methods of questioning...
...transformative because of its result. We can break our arms patting ourselves on the back for electing the first African-American president, but in fact it means a lot. When I started working for TIME, it was in the South in 1960-61, and those were different times. If someone had told me at that point that we could have had a black president, I would have told him that he better not drive because he had had too much to drink...
...flesh wound could not stop him and neither could the Crusader defense, especially in the second half—Lin scored 19 of his points after the break. He posted the first five points for the Crimson in that frame, nailing a three and putting back a layup to break a halftime deadlock—and this was just his warm-up show. He beat the Holy Cross defense for a layup, then broke a 37-37 tie with a three. With his team up 53-52 with under five minutes left, he popped another three, then stole the ball...
...spent most of Thanksgiving break glued to my computer, as an increasingly helpless Mumbai Police tried to fight a ruthless squad of militants before making way for the military. I heard gunfire and saw explosions. I saw commandos rappelling from helicopters and heard the horrific stories of survivors. Every now and then I would run into one of the few people still on campus, who would ask me what was going on, as though I knew better than others...