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...Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld went before the Senate and House Armed Services Committees to explain his department’s role in the prisoner abuses exposed at Abu Ghraib. In his testimony, he made the pledge that “everyone in Iraq who was a military person” would be “treated subject to the Geneva Conventions...
IfCriticalCondition, the new book by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele [Oct. 11], tells us anything about the health-care crisis, it's that anyone involved can make a buck off someone else's illness. The best way to address the nation's health-care woes is not to create another government agency but to change our illness-based system to a wellness-based system that would reward Americans for staying healthy. Every health-care professional must make a stronger effort to get our children, overstressed adults and seniors into the vast array of wellness, nutrition...
...think that Bush is to blame for everything from the Ku Klux Klan, to eviction notices, to Osama Bin Laden. The most troubling image in the entire video is actually of Bin Laden, who is revealed to be a paper tiger on a soundstage along with Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. This attitude, conflating one of the most dangerous and determined enemies we have ever faced with a harmless fabrication, is precisely the kind of dangerous naiveté that allowed September 11th to happen in the first place...
...quest for cool hooked Zhang Han early. An art student in a loose Donald Duck T shirt and Carhartt work pants, Zhang, 20, has gone from occasional basketball player to All-Star consumer. He pries open his bedroom closet to reveal 19 pairs of Air Jordans, a full line of Dunks and signature shoes of NBA stars like Vince Carter--more than 60 pairs costing $6,000. Zhang began gathering Nikes in the 1990s after a cousin sent some from Japan; his businessman father bankrolls his acquisitions. "Most Chinese can't afford this stuff," Zhang says, "but I know people...
...mandate for the humane treatment of prisoners should never be qualified, especially by vague phrases like “to the extent appropriate with military necessity.” Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, like Bush, used such characteristically vague language in a memorandum released in April 2003, in which he approved 24 techniques of interrogation. The memorandum states that prisoners may be interrogated in settings “that may be less comfortable” but do not “constitute a substantial change in environmental quality.” Such language is too vague to prevent inhumane methods...