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...about the security forces' alleged role in extra-judicial killings, torture and arbitrary arrests, was picked up by the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) in May, 2007. According to the Human Rights Watch report, he was kept in a detention center, beaten, threatened with execution and "forced to confess to - and implicate friends and colleagues in - anti-state and anti-military activity, and to smuggling of sensitive national security information to foreign organizations." After 22 hours and much pressure from foreign embassies in Bangladesh, authorities released Khalil. After a month in hiding he fled to Sweden, which granted...
...diagnosed me, using little lights to peer into my ears and nose because her eyes just weren’t strong enough? Cyborg. The woman who booked my appointment, using a telephone to talk to me instead of just yelling across campus to try to reach me? Cyborg. I confess that I felt some Asimov-flavored robot anxiety (something Lamp doesn’t treat) when I started to wonder where machine ends and the person begins...
Gentlemen: I must confess serious doubts about the efficacy—or even the integrity—of the “classic” exam period editorial, “Beating the System,” you reprinted recently. I almost suspect this so-called “Donald Carswell ’50” of being rather one of Us—the Bad Guys—than one of you. If your readers have been following Mr. Carswell’s advice for the last 11 years, then your readers have been going down the tubes...
Rural basketball coaches, inner-city math and music teachers - they are, as we all know, everywhere in the movies, inspiring their unlikely charges to equally unlikely triumphs. Most of these films insist they are based on "true" stories, though none that I know of confess to those melodramatic heightenings of the facts that, sooner or later, place lumps in our throats - which, according to taste, we either wallow in or try to swallow back...
...holiday season is a time for giving and sharing—The Harvard Radcliffe Christian Fellowship (HRCF) seems to have taken that to heart. At least, they’re sharing secrets.On a Friday night earlier this month, the student group sponsored a gathering entitled “Confessions.” The Crimson reported that at this powwow, which was attended by around 75 people, students were encouraged to confess their weaknesses publicly to the rest of the audience. One Harvard senior confessed he was addicted to pornography and had a pattern of objectifying women as a result. Another...