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But in a week when the WTO talks themselves were stultifying even to trade ministers, the South Koreans may have provided the only surprise-they displayed relatively good behavior. Many ended their protest march on the conference's opening day not by running amuck but by taking a dip: wearing...
Senator Proxmire was a creature of routine. A fitness buff, he ran five miles and did 50 pushups and sit-ups each day. His daily lunches were equally predictable: cottage cheese one day, sardines and milk the next, and liver and onions the day after that. From April 1966 to...
Until Thursday, the Bush administration maintained that its need to extract time-critical intelligence from suspected terrorists required it to skirt the Geneva Convention and other international niceties that obligated the administration to treat terrorists the same as conventional prisoners of war. In recent weeks, it has made a last...
But after months of resisting Senator John McCain?s push to ban torture in U.S. detention facilities, the White House retreated on Thursday. One day after the House of Representatives gave its support to McCain?s measure, the Bush Administration agreed to a deal that would put McCain?s language...
Four out of Five StarsIn the summer of 1971, British director Peter Watkins led a band of documentary filmmakers and amateur actors into the Mojave Desert to film “Punishment Park,” his incendiary indictment of the American government’s escalating use of violence...