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Several Dartmouth alumni have threatened to cut off donations to their alma mater unless it helps them save their view of Eastman Lake in Grantham, New Hampshire, 20 miles from the Dartmouth campus...
...Eastman Community Association has approved a plan to build 21 lakeside condominiums in Grantham, where an estimated 15 percent of the residents are Dartmouth alumni and their families...
...human rights group that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977, torture is now practiced by governments in 98 countries. The product of meticulous documentation, Torture in the Eighties is the most comprehensive report on the subject to date. Its conclusion, in the words of Amnesty's Mark Grantham: "Torture is not an isolated, but a widespread phenomenon. It is an epidemic in the world...
...hands on both ears simultaneously; la parrilla (the metal grill) is an electrical shock administered to the genitals; el submarino or la banera (the submarine or the bath) is a treatment in which the victim's head is held under water almost to the point of suffocation. Says Grantham: "Torture does not occur simply because individual torturers are sadistic. They tend to be servants of a state carrying out a state policy...
...major problem with passing legislation this year is that few elected officials may be willing to take up such a controversial topic in an election year, Grantham said...