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...sang of the past, and for the future. Come Jan. 20, her songs will be heard on the internal iTunes of the people she touched. Some voices can never be stilled...
...techniques: fear and control. The Army trained their 'gators to confront and dominate prisoners. This led down the disastrous path to the Abu Ghraib scandal. At Guantánamo Bay, the early interrogators not only abused the detainees, they tried to belittle their religious beliefs. I'd heard stories from a friend who had been there that some of the 'gators even tried to convert prisoners to Christianity. These approaches rarely yielded results ... My group is among the first to bring a new approach to interrogating detainees. Respect, rapport, hope, cunning, and deception are our tools...
...increases in child abuse, says Dr. Carole Jenny, a professor of pediatrics at Brown University and an expert in identifying and treating victims of child abuse, who authored a commentary in The Lancet. In the past six months, Jenny says she has seen increases in rates of maltreatment and heard similar reports from her colleagues. "I imagine that as the economy worsens, [child-abuse specialists are] only going to be more and more busy," she says, adding that the recession will likely mean less funding for already strained social services. "As the pressures on families are increasing markedly, the amount...
...level labs. Fourth generation East Cambridge resident and attorney Marie E. Saccoccio called the presence of “level three” labs in her densely populated part of the city, home to three senior citizen housing buildings and two charter schools, the worst idea she had ever heard. “These labs are right up against the projects but people live there. It may put a lot of money into the city coffers but it’s off the backs of the poor,” she said. Some residents, including Terrence F. Smith, the director...
...this isn't Kopko's first education-related business. When he was a freshman at Harvard, Kopko hired a maid to tidy his dorm room and soon had friends asking how they could do the same. Sensing a good business opportunity, he started DormAid. When the Harvard Crimson heard of the business, the staff wrote a scathing editorial. "They said it's a service that divides classes into the haves and have-nots," explains Kopko. "At the time, I was upset. But looking back, the Crimson did so much for me, I should send a commission check." (See TIME...