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...morally alert documentarian takes over - the film is very much better. He particularly wants to destroy the notion that the crimes committed at Abu Ghraib were solely the work of a few low ranking ?rotten apples.? In his interviews with them they largely come off as young, ill-educated, and very suggestible - almost as premoral as children - and he is not without a certain human sympathy for them. Their unseen higher-ups wanted intelligence (particularly about Saddam?s whereabouts) and did nothing to discourage any behavior that would degrade and terrify their prisoners into supplying that information. That...
...ended the poem with a smile. In the moment that followed, we both felt the echo of words that nimbly and delightfully spanned generations, cultures and centuries, and understood exactly why the Hyakunin Isshu is so enduring. Fujiwara no Teika may have shown the world a gruff, ill-natured and unlovely face, but no ogre had a heart more sentimental or more delicate...
...depth reporting on the ethanol and biofuel rip-off. Are we as a nation so inept? Can't we figure out why prices for eggs and other groceries have gone up 30% in the past year? Please keep on top of this issue. David Jennings, SPRINGFIELD, ILL...
...Congressman Barney Frank ’61 for twelve years, said one’s sexual orientation is not an indicator of success, either in office or elsewhere in life. “You are a parent, you have a child in your arms, the child is critically ill,” Kornan said: “You don’t ask about the sexual orientation of the doctor.” A political candidate—regardless of sexual orientation—should run on competence, intelligence, and honesty, she said. While Korman encouraged candidates...
...Naperville, Ill. native, O’Neill was recruited from Benet Academy to play baseball for the Crimson as an outfielder...