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...Zubaydah resides in that aforementioned undisclosed overseas location, where the U.S. may or may not be using torture to extract information. The problem: How do we know if he's telling us the truth? This is, after all, Zubaydah's last dance: as long as he keeps tossing out things, stringing us along, he's useful, privileged, treated with respect by his interrogators, like a Cold War era captured agent. Once that's no longer true, his life will turn very, very nasty. Zubaydah has every reason to lie, to throw his captors off the trail, to sow fear...
Still smarting from the Senate's rejection of drilling for oil in Alaska, the Bush Administration is gearing up for its next big energy battle. This week the Environmental Protection Agency will issue a crucial report on a plan to extract natural gas from an area in the Rocky Mountains four times the size of the proposed Arctic refuge site. The Administration says 25 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas is buried in Wyoming's Powder River Basin--enough to supply the U.S. for a year and worth up to $46 billion to energy companies. The Administration wants to green...
...rest of America is anything like me, they're reading the newspapers and wondering what they missed. I spent much of the morning trying to extract some seed of outrage from the myriad breathless news reports detailing the fundraising potential of these photographs. After an hour or so, I gave...
...names of the people who were there." In fact, he returned to a chaotic scene of police, reporters and lawyers. He had then instructed live-in tutor Kenneth Littleton to take several of the children, including Michael, then 15, to Windham, New York. But the prosecution's attempts to extract the details of what he did next or if he ever discussed his son's supposed guilt, proved impossible...
When you call parents, you want them to "extract the cruelty" from their bullying children, says Laura Kavesh, a child psychologist in Evanston, Ill. "But many parents are blown away by the idea of their child being cruel. They won't believe it." In a recent police-department survey in Oak Harbor, Wash., 89% of local high school students said they had engaged in bullying behavior. Yet only 18% of parents thought their children would act as bullies...