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...QRAC is only underutilized because the College has invested too little in its upkeep. Out of date exercise machines make the QRAC’s lower floor resemble more of a torture chamber than a modern weight room. This state of disrepair has forced most of the exercise traffic on the Quad to the House gyms, which, though not particularly well funded, are superior to the QRAC in quality...
Several residents were in attendance at the Sullivan Chamber last night, sporting “I Crow for the Carlson Petition” stickers, and though not officially speaking, made their presence felt...
...drugs--an unnamed "quick-on, quick-off" painkiller and Sodium Pentothal, the old movie truth serum--in a chemical version of reward and punishment to make Zubaydah talk. When questioning stalled, according to Posner, CIA men flew Zubaydah to an Afghan complex fitted out as a fake Saudi jail chamber, where "two Arab-Americans, now with Special Forces," pretending to be Saudi inquisitors, used drugs and threats to scare him into more confessions...
...whether Petersen and the screenwriter, novelist David Benioff (25th Hour), will be partisan or neutral. But Troy is bound to be handsome. The cinematographer is Roger Pratt, who shot Brazil and Batman in the '80s and gave a nicely sepulchral tone to last year's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. And heading the cast is a tony quartet of hunks: Brad Pitt as Achilles, Eric Bana (who somehow survived the wreck of The Hulk) as Hector, Sean Bean (Boromir in The Lord of the Rings) as Odysseus and Orlando Bloom (who was Tolkien's elf lord Legolas...
...Taliban in attics across Kabul, Khan boasts that his eight or nine thousand volumes are the world's largest collection of books on Afghanistan. Yet he's a traditionalist who presides strictly over business and family - including a teenage second wife who evicts his first wife from the marital chamber. His 12-year-old son yearns to attend school but has to tend one of Sultan's shops. "You are going to be a businessman. The best place to learn that is in the shop," Khan tells him firmly. The book is most compelling when depicting the circumscribed lives...