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...they are still beaten and killed by the police. If the government responded this way in the U.S., riots would break out. The Chinese seem almost to have accepted that they can't do anything. Their government controls them completely, and that is manifestly unfair. Amrita Jagpal West Chester, Ohio, U.S. Rough Treatment "One life inside Gitmo" [March 13] reported that Mohammed al-Qahtani, the Saudi accused of being the so-called 20th hijacker on 9/11, was coerced into confessing his ties to al-Qaeda. When we obtain information from prisoners by denying them basic human rights and decency, then...
...business lobby's comeback was due in no small part to three Republican Senators: Ohio's Mike DeWine, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Sam Brownback of Kansas. At the Judiciary Committee mark-up yesterday that passed the pro-business bill, those three voted consistently for the Democratic pro-immigrant amendments Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy was pushing. More important, Graham agreed to co-sponsor, and introduce in committee, the entire pro-immigrant (and pro-business) bill Kennedy and Senator John McCain had crafted over the last year. The business lobby was not shy about taking credit...
...Until the final votes were cast, few thought it would come out this way. After the morning session, Ohio's Mike DeWine was, like most observers, bemused by the chaos. Senators were pushing numerous amendments, offering second-degree amendments on top of them, then retracting the packages altogether. "Usually I can get a feel for how something's going to go, but I can't figure this one out," DeWine said. "It's not clear to me at all what this bill is going to look like...
...writers ("They don't have any respect for the game"), is destructive nostalgia, experts say. "If you look back, far into history, there is evidence of people having this tendency [to trumpet the good old days] for generations and generations and generations," says Lisa Libby, a psychology professor at Ohio State University and co-author of a 2003 study titled "When Change in the Self Is Mistaken for Change in the World." "So if it were true that there was all this decline in each successive generation, we'd have nothing left at this point. So clearly some...
AMRITA JAGPAL West Chester, Ohio...