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...images out of Abu Ghraib prison fit into the canon of torture tactics? Soldiers claim they were told by military intelligence officers to "soften up" the detainees for questioning. Certainly, putting hoods over prisoners' heads and stripping them naked would conform to common, if primitive, interrogation-prep tactics. Ilan Kutz, an Israeli psychiatrist who has witnessed military training for interrogations, confirms that sexual humiliation is also a well-known tool. "The idea of interrogation is to break down the person so all his resistance is shot, and then he'll tell you anything," he says. "In the process, sexual humiliation...
...BANNED. RIGHT-TO-LEFT WRITING, the centuries-old method for printing Chinese, in official documents; in Taiwan. Officials say the change was made to conform with the West's left-to-right form of writing, because the inclusion of numerals and English words was too confusing in the old style...
Pressure to conform to normative body types is certainly no longer restricted to athletes. Inside Abercrombie and Fitch, customers are greeted by a male chest—no face, no smile, just a chest. If a G.I. Joe from 1964 was blown up to full size, it would have a 32-inch waist and a 12-inch biceps. Today’s G.I.Joe has a 29-inch waist inches and 16 1/2-inch biceps...
Pressure to conform to normative body types is certainly no longer restricted to athletes. Inside Abercrombie and Fitch, customers are greeted by a male chest—no face, no smile, just a chest. If a G.I. Joe from 1964 was blown up to full size, it would have a 32-inch waist and a 12-inch biceps. Today’s G.I.Joe has a 29-inch waist inches and 16 1/2-inch biceps...
...quality and academic advising. The College expansion would be further down the line—perhaps two decades from now, when the Allston projects are finished and the policies suggested by the curricular review have been implemented in full. Planning for additional students will not only be forced to conform to the new educational standards, but it will also encourage another phase of faculty growth, possibly better than the last. Reaffirming a commitment to internationalization would draw in professors from areas of the world currently underrepresented in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...