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...history of the torture memo he authored.Written when its author was Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel, the Bybee memo guided Bush Administration policy towards detainees for almost two years. When its contents were leaked in the summer of 2004, the memo prompted widespread public disgust and was quickly repudiated by the Bush administration.The document itself is a 50-page patchwork of frightening absurdities. Ingeniously interpreting existing laws, Bybee reasons that “physical pain amounting to torture must be equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment...
...process is long and complicated, but Cavalli remains adamant about keeping his operation in Italy despite the lure of cheaper labor costs in China. "China is today's obsession," he says with disgust. "They try to copy everything, and it is terrible. In a couple of years, many factories will close because of China, and this is just the beginning...
...Time that "France has to realize the new social fact that Muslims are an important part of the population." Boubakeur alludes to an important point: the boundary between permissible and impermissible speech shifts in tune with changes in political power. Blair has been trying to channel the wave of disgust that followed last July's Muslim suicide attacks against London's transport system to broaden Britain's restrictions on speech that might incite terror. But he's still been finding it a tough sell. And last week, his critics pointed to al-Masri's conviction as proof that existing laws...
...gets a laugh on its own. Turner is particularly good at setting scenes at the top of songs--"Up rolled the riot van/ And sparked excitement in the boys/ But the policemen look annoyed/ Perhaps these are ones they should avoid"--and with each couplet he swings between disgust at and tolerance of the boozy, materialistic and louche world around him. On the standout A Certain Romance, Turner looks around the pub and begins, "Oh they might wear classic Reeboks/ Or knackered Converse/ Or tracky bottoms tucked in socks/ But all of that's what the point...
...chalks it up to the race for ratings, Marriott says a number of scenes in ?Joe Millionaire? were altered in the editing room. When contestant Sarah Kozer finds out that he?s not a millionaire in one of the final episodes, the camera pans to a look of disgust on Kozer?s face. But that footage had been filmed hours earlier in response to a different situation, says Marriott. In another scene, Zora Andrich - who Marriott ultimately picked - angrily gets out of the hut tub when several other contestants barge in on her tub time with Joe Millionaire. That also...