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...Right now, we have you coming back in January with loads of work in the coldest and darkest time of the year and the high point of that is the final examinations,” Kirby said. “We can do better than that...
Rules governing the agency aren't just murky. In the darkest corners, few even know what they are. While refusing to talk specifics, ex-CIA officials insist they obeyed the letter of the law. "We were not a bunch of cowboys," says James Pavitt, the recently retired Deputy Director of Operations. But the military will sometimes transfer high-value captives to the CIA for handling. And the CIA, in turn, has been known to outsource some of its most difficult cases to countries where laws are no impediment to torturers. Handing someone over to a nation where torture is common...
American progressives need a big project. In the 1960s, Freedom Summer was that project. Our parents’ generation abandoned their jobs and the glories of college life to bring a little ray of hope to the darkest spot in the struggle for civil rights. It was exactly the wrong place to go. Unlike Tennessee or parts of Georgia, Mississippi didn’t have a history of compromise on racial issues. Mississippians who opposed civil rights were more than willing to use violence, and state authorities were curiously unable to apprehend the criminals who harassed and even killed civil...
...noted that some of his darkest days following World War Two, when he was imprisoned in Buchenwald and Auschwitz, had come when he learned that the majority of killers possessed college degrees...
...newest film, director Marc Forster makes a drastic break from his previous work. In Monster’s Ball, he explored themes of racism, deceit and capital punishment; in short, he depicted reality at its darkest. Finding Neverland couldn’t be more different. Johnny Depp plays James “J.M.” Barrie, in the process of writing his masterwork Peter Pan. Like most of Depp’s characters, Barrie is more than a little strange. He lives in an odd mix of the real world—London in 1904?...