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...Presidents shouldn’t appoint just anyone to their administrations, and Harvard offers some great talents. But no matter how smart they are, professors are still human. Groups of likeminded people fall victim to groupthink—sometimes with disastrous results. Indeed, when David Halberstam wrote his account of the Johnson administration’s bungling of Vietnam, he entitled it, “The Best and the Brightest...
...from what most Russians think of moonshine, a time-dishonored pastime in a country where alcohol poisoning has helped lead to a population decline. In January, The Moscow Times reported that the reason for so many deaths is that 300 million liters of substances never intended for human consumption are drunk annually - these include perfume, aftershave, and cleaning liquids. Many shops sell contraband vodka which is made from a combination of those liquids and water. (See a story about 21st Century American moonshine...
...severe irritant, smoking the insurgents out of their caves. The use of such special agents "was very tempting," says Adrienne Mayor, a classical folklorist and author of Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs: Biological & Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World, "especially when you don't consider the enemy fully human...
...Deprived of sleep and forced to spend days in a tiny windowless cell without a bed, Santos remains an outspoken critic of the U.S. base at Guantanamo. Terrorists need to be punished, he says, but torture is never justified. "We could take some [prisoners in Portugal] on grounds of human rights because of Guantanamo is a cancer which is afflicting society," he told TIME. "I condemn terrorism. It is barbaric. But there are some [in Guantanamo] who cannot get a fair trial if returned to their own countries, or who would be in danger being tortured or even killed. Even...
...lead the way on the issue, says resolving Guantanamo is in Europe's own interests. "It is important strategically to improve transatlantic relations," she says. "With Obama the attitude has changed so the allies now can get together. It is also important politically for the West to be championing human rights." And there's perhaps no country better to do that than one which understands what it means when human rights are trampled...