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...Friday night, Rice and her party returned to the Baghdad airport in darkened military Blackhawks. The city lights twinkled below. In fact, from the air it looked like any other Middle Eastern City. Rice's aides pointed out that semblance of normalcy as one more hopeful omen-though her entourage was unable to venture beyond the heavily guarded Green Zone, and even while they were there, a shooting attack o the embassy of Oman claimd two lives...
...Harvard men’s water polo team will be celebrating its 25th year as a varsity program in style this weekend. Blodgett Pool is home to the Eastern Championships, the final tier of playoffs, where the Crimson will face ivy-rival Princeton in its first match. Though Harvard (10-12) will enter the game as the underdog against the Tigers (18-9), if the Crimson can maintain ball control, it has a chance to upset the same team that made it to the national championship game against UCLA last year. Each team brings different strengths to the match. Princeton...
...team of Farrar and Offsay has helped the water polo team reach the Eastern Championships, something the team missed out on during the two years before Farrar arrived. Men’s water polo placed third at Eastern’s his freshman year, and Offsay, along with a team of strong seniors, helped bring the team back into contention for that title last year, restoring the program to where it was earlier...
...extraordinary rendition,” the outsourcing of torture practices to Syria, Morocco, Jordan and Egypt—all of which have been cited for human-rights violations by the State Department. A corollary to this practice is CIA operated secret prisons in Thailand and Eastern Europe, as recently reported by Dana Priest in The Washington Post. Such forays into ethically murky territory—to say the least—do no small harm to U.S. credibility abroad. On Jan. 27, President Bush assured us that “torture is never acceptable, nor do we hand over people...
Counterterrorism sources have confirmed to TIME that the CIA has had covert detention centers in Thailand and Guantnamo Bay, which are no longer operating, and that the agency continues to run similar facilities in Afghanistan and Eastern Europe. In Afghanistan, the agency's prison was once located in an old brick factory near Kabul's airport, nicknamed the Salt Pit by the CIA and the Darkness Prison by inmates. Detainees who have escaped or been released from the prison claim they were kept in cold, dark cells underground, fed once every three days and sometimes chained wet and naked...