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...abusive guards at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison; on all five charges of assault, conspiracy, maltreatment of detainees, committing indecent acts and dereliction of duty; in the first trial arising from the international scandal that broke with the release of photos showing U.S. soldiers gleefully torturing prisoners; in Fort Hood, Texas. Jurors rejected the defense's claim that Graner was just following orders and sentenced him to 10 years in prison with a demotion to private...
...coolest wireless device, however, is a snowboarding jacket from Burton, which teamed up with Motorola for the design. Like a previous BURTON JACKET, it connects to an iPod to jam music on the slopes. But this beauty can also route phone calls to the headphones hidden in the hood...
...this movie you play a junkie. He's a small-time hood. I thought I could do something funky with this character. I was trying to make him like these homeless drug addicts in my old neighborhood on the Lower East Side, where, you know, they were somebody once...
Like a recurring nightmare, Abu Ghraib never quite goes away. The alleged ringleader of the horrors inflicted at the Baghdad prison, whose grin and thumbs-up over the body of a dead Iraqi prisoner became an image of national shame, showed up for his court-martial in Fort Hood, Texas, last week, with a clean shave and a solemn face. A day earlier, President George W. Bush's choice for Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, who played a large role in orchestrating, if not actually drafting, a change in the Administration's rules on torture, was asked to explain himself before...
...Belief in cultural mirrors has devastating consequence in our hyper-visual culture. Appearance and self-hood are stickily entwined,” Gullette said. “The exhibit was modeled on a dominant cultural assumption that the body declines as if with no cultural intervention.” Hence, the title of the book...