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...believe the other six soldiers implicated so far--Graner, Frederick, Davis and three female MPs--superior officers not only knew but approved of it all. The accused insist that military intelligence and civilian interrogators told the low-ranking MPs to soften up prisoners before they were questioned and that the unit was just doing the job. Guy Womack, Graner's civilian attorney, gave TIME copies of two photos he intends to use to defend his client, who was formally charged last week on seven counts of maltreatment and committing indecent acts. According to Graner, the photos, taken from a vantage...
...week of congressional hearings, lawmakers struggled to trace the links in the chain of command. The White House, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and top brass in the Pentagon continued to insist that the abuses were confined to the sadistic impulses of the midnight shift at the prison. Senators and Representatives who crowded secure rooms on the Hill to watch nearly 1,800 unpublished pictures flash by, along with about half a dozen grainy videotapes, got a raw eyeful of just how perverse those particular soldiers had been. One of the videos seems to show a G.I. preparing to sodomize...
...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.’s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up we decide C- (Harvard being Harvard, we do not give D’s. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn’t thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. “Locke is a transitional figure...
...women’s and gender-related issues were the domain of a single student group, critics would be right to insist that organization simply “follow procedure” to obtain space. But the women’s center is not a typical student group. It would be open to all females at Harvard; and, while over a dozen distinct groups—from the Association of Black Harvard Women to the Radcliffe Union of Students—have voiced the need for a center, the standard process doesn’t allow them to apply jointly...
...have won their party's nomination. But will Kerry stay the course? "Really, it comes together at the convention," says Democratic pollster Mark Penn, who helped Bill Clinton frame his middle-of-the-road image. "You either come out with a centrist message or you don't." Kerry advisers insist their man will take a centrist course right through November. --By Perry Bacon Jr. and Karen Tumulty