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...intense pressure to come up with "productive" interrogations, may have created a climate that fosters abuse. One U.S. official says that some FBI agents were well aware that the military was using "very aggressive" interrogation methods that would not be condoned in the U.S. An Army officer seems to confirm that. Among Arab men, he tells TIME, sexual insecurity is a powerful lever: fear of homosexuality and, almost as significant, female domination, are particular issues. "We don't like to talk about it," says the officer, "but it is working." If so, success has come at a staggering cost...
...Half the day is gone! I am so bad at life! b) I can’t study on an empty stomach. Go to the dining hall and shmooze ‘til lunch (ends). c) I sing along to my alarm, just to confirm I still have a voice. d) Bedtime...
...publicly available team rosters for the 2006-2007 academic year do seem to confirm Roby and Orleans’s hypothesis, at least informally...
...Congressional investigators say they intend to press on with their demands for additional testimony from Administration officials, including the President's top political adviser, Karl Rove. Lawmakers have also said they will not confirm any more Justice Department nominees until they are given e-mails and other documentation they have demanded from the White House...
...Sources close to the mayor confirm that Bloomberg is not interested in trying to oust newly elected Democratic governor Eliot Spitzer from his job. "He's become the Paris Hilton of politics - people love to speculate about him," says one source, who adds that Bloomberg, a nominal Republican, is preparing to throw himself into the presidential race next spring, if he sees an opening. He's told people privately that he'd be willing to spend $500 million or more to finance an independent, third-party presidential campaign - to collect the signatures needed to get him on the ballot...