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...despite their declassification, still substantially redacted. One consequence is that it is hard to establish timelines: for instance, how much information did Khalid Sheikh Mohammed provide before he was waterboarded, and how much afterward? (Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times, Zubaydah 83 times and Nashiri twice.) (Read "How Waterboarding Got Out of Control...
...given, which I feel was a bit predatory, given my economic circumstances," she says. "I'm even willing to buy the house outright from them for what I'm told they'd probably get it for at auction, around $100,000. Anything to keep the house. My neighborhood's got too many foreclosed homes as it is." She points to one that lenders have yet to sell - but which she and her neighbors fear has become a nighttime lair for drug-addict squatters. (Watch a video on people facing foreclosure in Tampa...
...discussing all your problems and think you've solved everything, but in fact you haven't done anything in the last four hours, because you've just been chewing khat and all your problems actually got worse," says Adel al-Shujaa, a professor of political science at Sana'a University and the head of the Yemen Without Khat Association. Plus, he says, "all the decisions you've made are bad because you've made them while on khat...
...spokesman Junichi Kawaminami says there is no official response to criticism of the Mr. James campaign. He does, however, explain the story of the character, which appears in the first commercial. "Mr. James' daughter was determined to go to Japan and study, and so he looked at maps and got excited to go with her," says Kawaminami. "Once he found out that McDonald's was offering the Tamago Double Mac, it became the deciding factor." Why? It was on the McDonald's Japan menu years ago and became Mr. James' favorite when he was a student in Japan. That, says...
...Kartika, 32, had steeled herself to her punishment after having pleaded guilty to consuming alcohol while at a resort in 2007. On Monday morning, she donned an Islamic headscarf, planted a kiss on the cheek of her 5-year-old daughter and got into a van to make the 270-km journey to a women's prison outside the capital of Kuala Lumpur. Instead, the van pulled over after just 200 m while officials from the Prisons Department, the Attorney General's chambers and the Islamic courts argued over the case. In the end, a decision was made to defer...