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Barrios, himself a former Harvard College Democrat, expressed surprise at the Dems’ top-notch manual camera...
...you’re surprised I even took the initiative to write this piece. You might even be surprised that I have the manual dexterity necessary to type, given these grotesquely gnarled nubs I call fingers attached to the ends of my hands. Well, I’ll tell you how. I’ve got a nerd in a headlock typing furiously as I dictate. Well, I shouldn’t say “furiously.” He has plenty of time to catch up while I’m taking regular gulps of the chocolate milk...
...emerged—during this year’s Oscar season. For one, the Foreign Language Film situation has turned into an abysmal nightmare. Each country can submit only one film to be “considered,” and the nomination process is comparable to a police manual, with strange rules about the nationality of the creative talent, where the film was shot, and when and where it opened. Because the submission process is so labyrinthine, films like Almodovar’s Bad Education, Kar-Wai Wong’s 2046, Akin’s Head On, Marston?...
...going to be spending any time with appointed lawyers or international counselors who might be interested in obtaining their release. They were stuck in Cuba, some indefinitely, literally outside the law. That alone was an incentive for the prisoners to talk. For a time, the military followed Army field manual rules, which allowed for 17 interrogation techniques, such as the use of the good cop--bad cop routine; the we-know-everything gambit; the use and removal of incentives; emotional and psychological pressure; and silence...
...months later, when officers at Guant??namo, frustrated by the lack of usable intelligence they were getting from prisoners, asked Washington to approve the use of more aggressive techniques than the 17 methods in the manual, the legal groundwork had already been prepared for a new age of harsher--and now legal--interrogation. In December 2002, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld signed off on 16 additional measures for use at Gitmo, including stress positions, such as standing for long periods; isolation for up to a month; hooding during transportation and questioning; removal of clothing; and "exploiting individual phobias, e.g., dogs...