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...European Convention on Human Rights states: "No one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." But torture is one of those areas where European reality is a bit messier than theory. In 2000, Amnesty International pointed to a troubling number of reports of ill treatment within Europe, many pertaining to the alleged abuse of asylum seekers. The implications of the Marty report are still more sobering. It's hard to escape the conclusion that some European governments, and law-enforcement and intelligence agencies, have decided that torture - when it's outsourced to countries that...
...summer from London to Avignon for the Financial Times. Then off on a summer cruise-ship lecture tour. In October she will be fêted at the New York Public Library for her 80th birthday. Yet there will be no more books, save one. "I've been very ill," she says. "I had two brain surgeries earlier this year, so I'm sort of taking the year off. I'm much better now, thanks. I can stand, walk, even drive a car. I have this Honda Civic Type R, a special, souped-up model with a very powerful engine...
JOSHUA KLEIN Oak Park, Ill...
...says. “And my reasoning for that is that all of us who have a little bit of gray hair have seen at least half a dozen presidents and recognize that Harvard is far bigger than any one individual or any one president. Any ill feeling on the part of alumni or folks who gave money shouldn’t have any effect.”Sidney R. Knafel ’52, whose $26 million gift endowed the Knafel Building, part of the Center for Government and International Studies center, says that his own level of giving...
...deep contempt for the new enemy, instead of assuming a proper attitude of caution and watchful reserve...In reaction to Soviet offers to confer, the U.S. answers with despairing pessimism instead of cautious optimism. When Russia announced her arms cut, Secretary Dulles, a man of few and ill-chosen words, responded that “the obvious explanation” is as a propaganda tactic and a shift of manpower to industry and agriculture.... This kind of narrow pre-judgement of Russia with which the U.S. faces the world can do this country little good. It is perhaps more dangerous...