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The convention against torture defines torture as any act that inflicts severe pain or suffering, physical or mental. When the U.S. ratified the convention in 1990, it defined torture as anything cruel and unusual under the Eighth Amendment. The convention prohibits countries from handing over captives to another state known...
Back in the late '90s, morale at the Los Angeles Times had reached an all-time low. The business side was being run by Mark Willes, a former president of General Mills who was dubbed the "cereal killer" and was resented at the newspaper for firing journalists and attempting to...
In the search for any conceivable solace, I find it in the varieties of courage the other soldiers have shown, including the courage to report the ones who did this. Humiliation--in this case America's own--may beget humility, of which there has at times been a shortage in...
Candidates often move to the middle once they have won their party's nomination. But will Kerry stay the course? "Really, it comes together at the convention," says Democratic pollster Mark Penn, who helped Bill Clinton frame his middle-of-the-road image. "You either come out with a centrist...
Are you hip if you try hard to be? The answer is usually no, and that's what some young voters may conclude about the web efforts of the two leading presidential candidates. The G.O.P., at 2004NYCGOP.ORG, is sponsoring a contest, Stand Up and Holla, inviting young entrants to write...