Word: inhumanness
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...worse than a Beast. Reason is that whereby a man Excels a Beast; but this Sin depriveth him of his Excellency.”Our drunken interlocutor is indeed bestial. He doesn’t say anything as he runs by us; it’s more of an inhuman howl. Errrrrggh! His mate is slapping him on the rear and hoisting aloft his shirt—it appears he was wearing a tuxedo earlier in the night—screaming at him to go faster. Later, looking forward to Mather House’s sweet embrace as I head...
...publicly acknowledged is that the agency halted the "special interrogations" in its secret prisons more than nine months ago. People briefed on the matter tell TIME that the agency backed away from its program in December 2005 as Congress passed an amendment to the 2006 defense bill banning "cruel, inhuman or degrading" treatment of prisoners in U.S. custody. According to other U.S. officials, then CIA Director Porter Goss feared that the amendment, sponsored by McCain, might undercut the legal authority for CIA interrogations. So Goss put those procedures on hold while seeking a legal opinion from the Justice Department...
...that he is "deeply sorry for the reactions" of some Muslims. More specifically, he distanced himself from a 15th-century Byzantine emperor he quoted. Emperor Manuel II Paleologos's line that "Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached," the Pope explained, does not "in any way express my personal thought." And he refers offended Muslims to a previous apology by the Vatican Secretary of State, who said that Benedict had meant only "to undertake... certain...
...chance to examine the speech in advance, they might have made the point that it wouldn't be smart to cite the now infamous words of a 14th century Byzantine Emperor - "Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached" - without some context or interpretation. One might even defend the Pope's use of the historical quote in order to pursue his intellectual point - but not his simply leaving it there to flap in the wind, without...
...vague--like the prohibition in Common Article 3 against "outrages upon personal dignity"--Bush would remove Geneva references from the U.S.'s 1996 War Crimes Act, which provides penalties up to death for abuse of detainees. Instead, he would identify nine violations: torture, cruel or inhuman treatment, performing biological experiments, murder, mutilation or maiming, intentionally causing great suffering or serious injury, rape, sexual assault or abuse and taking hostages. The bill states that these prohibitions "shall fully satisfy United States obligations" under Geneva. It would apply retroactively to all detentions after 9/11 to provide some legal protection to U.S. jailers...