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...same words are bleeped routinely (often barely) all over network TV--and go unbleeped on basic-cable networks like FX and ESPN, let alone Showtime and HBO. In an episode of Fox's since-canceled Keen Eddie, three men enlist a hooker to arouse a horse to extract semen from him. The PTC recently protested an episode of NBC's Medium in which the police burst into a bedroom to find a suspect in bed--with a two-week-old corpse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Decency Police | 3/20/2005 | See Source »

...Show and Ask at Gitmo Your report confirms that the military used sexual tactics at the Guantánamo Bay prison [Feb. 21], where female interrogators touched handcuffed detainees in sexually suggestive ways in an attempt to extract information. Those practices, deliberately violating Muslim taboos, have less to do with sex than with religion. Religious humiliation and degradation are prohibited by international law and dishonor our country. As the torture scandal continues to unfold-and where will it end?-we have every reason to demand an independent prosecutor. George Hunsinger McCord Professor of Theology Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton, New Jersey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 3/14/2005 | See Source »

...forefront. We must never forget our heroes. Virginia Rebyak Bear, Delaware, U.S. Show and Ask at Gitmo Your report confirms that the military used sexual tactics at the Guantánamo Bay prison [Feb. 21], where female interrogators touched handcuffed detainees in sexually suggestive ways in an attempt to extract information. Those practices, deliberately violating Muslim taboos, have less to do with sex than with religion. Religious humiliation and degradation are prohibited by international law and dishonor our country. As the torture scandal continues to unfold - and where will it end? - we have every reason to demand an independent prosecutor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 3/13/2005 | See Source »

...help the poor? Chidambaram: It is easy to blame the bureaucracy, yet it's the same bureaucracy that delivers in one place and fails to deliver in another. A bureaucracy is like a horse. It is only as good as the rider. If leadership is sound, we can extract results from the bureaucracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "People Think India Is a Poor Country. It Is Not" | 3/7/2005 | See Source »

...them. That's why the nation's largest data miner, whose computers maintain and manipulate 19 billion data files for clients ranging from the Cub Scouts to the CIA, found itself trying to explain last week how a Nigerian con artist posing as several small-business owners could extract data on 145,000 people. "They were careful not to trip the triggers, and they did pay their bills," James Lee, ChoicePoint's chief marketing officer, says of the fake businesses. But the Nigerian job did trigger a national debate on privacy, identity theft and the role of the megaminers that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Your Secrets Safe? | 2/28/2005 | See Source »

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