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...past few months, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has itself resembled a superannuated soap, with the long-term future of the 85-year-old institution called into question as it lurches from embarrassing revelations about editorial lapses to high-level resignations and job cuts. Management has apologized for such breaches of trust as falsifying the results of a public vote held to name a cat on the children's show Blue Peter (producers rejected the winning entry, Cookie, in favor of Socks) and showing a trailer for the documentary A Year with the Queen with scenes shown out of sequence...
...embedded with them for seven months last year, training full-time with the 39 hopefuls vying for an oar in the boat. That meant very early mornings and punishing physical exertion, often in filthy weather. He came away with more than the usual platitudes about teamwork and persistence. Like high-level executive teams, Oxbridge rowing crews operate in stressful, pressure-cooker environments. Both are made up of ambitious players from diverse backgrounds whose personalities often have edges as sharp as their talents...
...printer and grassroots appeal. Meanwhile, fellow American Don Cheadle relies on famous friends (namely George Clooney) and media access to translate his post-“Hotel Rwanda” concern into highly visible action. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, spearheads an operation to gather evidence and bring a case against two of Sudan’s guiltiest high-level officials. Within Darfur, Pablo Recalde, a U.N. ground worker, sends a heavily armed convoy to bring food to another region of Darfur, its future uncertain. But no one experiences the crisis more intensely than those...
Whenever the question of the security of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal comes up, the official U.S. response has been that the weapons are in safe hands. That position is, like the U.S. position on Russian nukes, based on trust - on high-level, personal contacts between military commanders on both sides. For now, Washington can maintain that line about Pakistan because that country's two highest military leaders have close ties to the U.S. or Britain. General Pervez Musharraf, who is also President, was trained in England, and his likely military successor General Ashfaq Pervez Kiyani was trained...
...until veteran Illinois Senator Dick Durbin asked him a deceptively simple question: Is waterboarding torture? Waterboarding, you may remember, is the practice of holding someone down and pouring water over his face until he thinks he's drowning. U.S. interrogators allegedly used some version of the technique on high-level terrorism suspects after 9/11. Current and former U.S. military leaders, human-rights organizations and prominent Republicans have no problem declaring it torture and therefore illegal...