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Tribe’s 1985 book did not contain footnotes and endnotes—a decision he made as part of a “well-meaning effort to write a book accessible to a lay audience...
...went on to cover 13 wars for such news outlets as the Associated Press, Life magazine and Parade. He also took moving, often black-and-white portraits of world leaders, activists and entertainers, but he was forever haunted by his iconic Vietnam photo, which he said he couldn't lay eyes on for two years. He also faced occasional scoldings from people who wondered why he didn't try to stop the killing. DIED. SKEETER DAVIS, 72, one of America's first big-selling female country crossover acts, who hit the pop charts in 1963 with the ballad...
...back and so on. As a former President, you were doubtless entitled to nurses who knew how to find a vein on the first jab when drawing blood. The rest of us took our chances with new interns, who made random, increasingly berserk needle stabs while we lay there struggling to keep still, thinking that this is like watching a freshman philosophy major trying to slaughter a chicken...
READY, SET ... The President pauses in the control room just before taking the stage. In his 62-min. speech, he will lay out a modest domestic agenda and a vigorous defense of his foreign policy--and crack a few jokes...
Schlesinger's report and a separate internal Army probe lay out a series of dubious decisions that fostered the abuses, starting with President Bush's 2002 order suspending the Geneva Conventions for captured al-Qaeda and Taliban members. Rumsfeld then doubled the number of harsh strategies U.S. forces could employ in Guantanamo Bay and Afghanistan, allowing measures like stripping prisoners and using dogs to terrify them. Pressured by Pentagon lawyers, the Schlesinger report said, Rumsfeld ultimately banned the worst techniques. But some slipped back into use at Abu Ghraib after those who had used them in Afghanistan and Guantanamo arrived...