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...agent later recounted this story with a laugh. But now, seven weeks after the terrorist attacks, several key suspects in U.S. custody remain uncooperative even as investigators continue to warn that another deadly assault will come soon. Last week the Washington Post reported that some frustrated officials were actually discussing whether to seek approval for using truth drugs on the detainees. (The FBI denied the story.) Another option, since the U.S. would not formally condone torture, is to extradite the most intransigent detainees to allied nations known for bare-knuckle police work--a legally questionable move made on rare occasions...
...better," said the French official. "Members live together, form businesses together, will drink alcohol, eat during Ramadan, become smart dressers and ladies? men in order to show just how integrated they are," says an investigator. Suspects like Beghal, he says, "are well-spoken, affable, very intelligent, ready with a laugh, good-looking guys. You can?t believe they?d be involved in this kind of terror. Which is one reason you?ve got to force yourself to think twice when they say they?ve turned their back...
...Rover’s biggest assets is its use of humor. Behn’s jokes about inconstancy, insecurities and relationship problems in general, still draw a laugh today. More than mindless entertainment, Behn’s play serves as a vehicle to challenge conventional conceptions of relationships. The play raises even more serious issues when, towards the end, it temporarily abandons its light-hearted tone and explores darker issues of rape and violence...
Though self-inflation hits close to home with Harvard students regardless of when they’ve graduated, the musical is mainly a comedy, with witty and sometimes laugh-out-loud commentary on the idiosyncrasies of Harvard. After all these years, some things about Harvard never change, as evidenced by the opening song, “A Freshman’s Lament”: a classmate boasts of his studies at the Mozart Institute in Salzberg or of his recently published book, which provokes another panicked classmate to cry in the chorus, “Good...
...dance has ushered in a somber tone on campus. Male students have taken to lifting cars to release their pent-up tension. Contrary to previous complaints, students are now flocking to Eliot House for their daily cold shower. The Lampoon is so distraught, they have been unable to laugh at even their own pathetic excuses for jokes. Academic performance has taken a nose-dive as well; not one Computer Science 121: “Introduction to Formal Systems and Computation” problem set made deadline this week...