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...training system requires sequestering the 13 to 16 best gymnasts in the year-round training camp in Deva and giving them 11 or 12 training sessions a week while tightly controlling all other aspects of their lives, from social schedule to nutrition. The system has been criticized as unduly harsh. Gymnasts, who enter Deva at around age 14, are allowed only one or two visits home a year. But it produces results, bringing talented athletes to top international level within two years. "Deva is like a military camp," says Marius Chican, a sports writer for the daily Evenimentul Zilei...
...tactics violated international law, Rumsfeld withdrew the list a month later and asked for a policy review. He issued a new list in April 2003 that is still in use. According to a former Pentagon official who worked on the review, the final list of approved techniques is less harsh than the original recommendations...
...Bandar's statement was a harsh, if thinly veiled criticism of some of his uncles responsible for security in the Kingdom. Indeed, when he demands, "Enough blaming others when the reason lies within our own ranks!" he is explicitly criticizing a tendency, seen at the highest levels of the Saudi ruling family, to blame terror attacks in the kingdom on alien forces. Prince Nayef, the Interior Minister responsible for fighting terrorism in Saudi Arabia maintained long after 9/11 that the attack was the work of "Zionists," while even Crown Prince Abdullah, the day-to-day ruler of the kingdom...
...Bamford suggests he could have. "Off on the sidelines, George Tenet was one of the few who knew the truth," he writes, adding that Tenet preferred to work behind the scenes on minor disagreements about the data "instead of speaking out" against the grand scheme. That's a harsh indictment of the man who kept America's secrets under two Presidents. But one of Tenet's colleagues was even less generous, saying simply, "We caved...
...come home. Heering is now working with his father-in-law in construction. His past-due bills are paid, but there's nothing for college. Although he is angry and anxious, Heering hasn't called about counseling. Come fall, he plans to vote for George Bush, but he has harsh words for KBR. "If they send a truck on the road now," he says, "it's murder...