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SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL How does an author learn to write convincing sex scenes? If she's a romance writer, she can attend a sex-writing class at the Romance Writers of America's annual convention. But what can an aspiring Philip Roth do? Ben Schrank, the author of "Consent" (Random...
It is this grand scope that makes for the exhibit’s most compelling print. It depicts another street corner, where the camera looks obliquely down a long city street. The image is divided vertically by another grey lamp post; on its right, a pretzel vendor plies his trade...
The larger context in which Palestinian terrorism takes place—the context obscured by America’s single-minded focus on terrorism—is Israel’s 34-year military occupation of a civilian population. Since Israel’s conquest of the West Bank and...
Slaughter agreed that al-Qaeda members are not legitimate POWs under the Geneva Convention, but criticized the Bush administration’s support of tribunals. She argued that such a military framework allows the U.S. to “create [law] as we go.”
Slaughter also argued that the Taliban was a legitimate state under the Geneva Convention and that Taliban prisoners warrant treatment as POWs.