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...worried the prisoners "wouldn't want to leave," as though she expected a spread soon in House & Garden. Nor was there much room for philosophical debate over means and ends or a game of scruples over whether it's O.K. to torture a prisoner who knows where a suitcase nuke has been planted in downtown St. Louis. These prisoners were not the big fish, and these guards were not trained and disciplined interrogators. What they did was give the jihadists a gift of incalculable value. Our enemies call the U.S. godless, depraved and corrupt, and now they have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Their Humiliation, and Ours | 5/17/2004 | See Source »

...seniors in a small town in Texas. It’s a coming of age story about—not surprisingly—nostalgic endings and new beginnings. (According to reviewer “AJJAS” on IMDB.com: “After 2 hours, I was ready to nuke that backwater Texas town and put the group of those characters out of their misery...

Author: By Benjamin J. Toff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: My Last Picture Show | 4/29/2004 | See Source »

...seniors in a small town in Texas. It’s a coming of age story about—not surprisingly—nostalgic endings and new beginnings. (According to reviewer “AJJAS” on IMDB.com: “After 2 hours, I was ready to nuke that backwater Texas town and put the group of those characters out of their misery...

Author: By Benjamin J. Toff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: My Last Picture Show | 4/28/2004 | See Source »

...known as edgy but is still coasting on his tired 30-year-old Seven Dirty Words routine. Even the title of his book, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, which Carlin says will offend three religious groups at once, is no more original than the old bumper sticker NUKE THE GAY WHALES FOR JESUS. STEVE GORMAN Redmond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 19, 2004 | 4/19/2004 | See Source »

...regrets that the six-party talks in Beijing—which reopen today—have heretofore focused exclusively on North Korea’s nuclear program, without regard for its appalling human rights violations. Consequently, she says, “Most people in the U.S. know about the nuke situation in North Korea, but not the humanitarian situation...

Author: By Duncan M. Currie, | Title: The Scariest Place on Earth | 2/25/2004 | See Source »

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