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COLUMNIST JOE KLEIN'S "THE BENETTON-AD PRESIDENCY" discussed the diversity of President Bush's choices for Cabinet posts [Dec. 27--Jan. 3]. But diversity is not merely a difference of color or ethnicity but also a divergence of perspective, opinion and experience. If the President is really interested in...
Modern Drunkard pays tipsy tribute to the joys of Heineken and hangovers with a brazenness likely to drive MADD mad. The 8-year-old mag has just been redesigned and expanded; next up, a spin-off book and national convention.
In fairness, Gonzales' argument-that stateless, remorseless al-Qaeda terrorists should be detained in a manner different from and stricter than the standard Geneva Convention procedures-has merit. The use of aggressive, nonviolent interrogation techniques, perhaps even drugs like sodium pentothal, may not be inappropriate to elicit information from those...
No one disputes the fact that the Bush team departed abruptly from convention when it loosened rules governing interrogations of prisoners. Some critics say those decisions amounted to an authorization of torture--a charge the Administration has flatly and repeatedly denied, right up through last month, when it abruptly revised...
Many believe it didn't need one. ??Until 9/11, the U.S. military had officially followed the Convention Against Torture and the Geneva Conventions, a series of treaties governing rules of war. But after 9/11, the Bush Administration believed the old rules were naive and unrealistic in the face of a...