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...things are not getting bad as fast as they were." Some of that relied on slowing weekly unemployment figures and better-than-expected consumer sentiment. For a brief period, all of the statistics on the economy were read as being good. The first set of numbers that let nagging doubt worked its way into optimistic minds was the sharp increase in foreclosure rates. In March there was a 46% increase in filings compared with the same month last year. That news was followed quickly by unexpectedly poor numbers from the Conference Board which said that its index of leading economic...
...African states, notably Ethiopia and Eritrea, to involve themselves in peacemaking. One project he has been assigned by Clinton is to help organize an African commission to investigate who really was responsible for the killing of 24 Pakistani U.N. soldiers in June (though the U.N. and U.S. have no doubt it was Aidid). That would enable the U.S. and U.N. to negotiate with Aidid without officially ignoring a Security Council resolution calling for the arrest, trial and punishment of ''those responsible.'' And if the commission eventually concludes that Aidid really was the one primarily responsible? Well . . . maybe...
...possibility that we once had? Have we grown numb or is college really not all that we had anticipated? Have we learned anything since we’ve been here? Where has that sense of ambition and confidence gone? And then, just when you’re about to doubt our entire college experience, you hear a prefrosh puking in the bathroom down the hall, and are reminded that yes, you have in fact grown, matured, and learned at least one invaluable piece of information: beer before liquor, never been sicker...
...water. As noted in the memos, the interrogations techniques are taken from the military's escape and evasion training manuals, known as SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape) - which in turn were taken from Chinese abusive interrogations used on our troops during the Korean War. If there is any doubt the techniques were already in the public domain, released detainees have more than detailed the abuse interrogation techniques they were subjected...
...impact of torture, psychologists need to follow up with victims well after they are released. That may never happen with detainees like Zubaydah and Mohammed-meaning we may never know the final wages of what CIA agents did in dark rooms under our name. But there should be no doubt now that we tortured. "That we would still be having a discussion about whether or not waterboarding is torture is so disingenuous," says Keller. "They should come out and say what...