Word: painfulness
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...Like this month's other newspaper movie, State of Play, The Soloist has been updated from a few years past to what feels like this morning. An editor looks out a window, despondent, dulled with pain, as off-camera, another one of her employees is advised to take a buyout. As Lopez reports from his desk, a freshly laid-off journalist trails a security guard out of the building. Yet The Soloist still makes you want to run out and be a newspaper columnist. Crazy? Maybe a little. Certainly most industry observers would gently suggest you choose a more obtainable...
...crucial point, though, is that even the communists suspected that torture can't be relied on to produce more than false confessions--because people will say anything to make the pain stop. This is the history that Bush officials chose to ignore. I asked a former CIA officer privy to the decision-making that led to the waterboarding of al-Qaeda leader Abu Zubaydah whether he thought the abusive tactics worked. His answer: to a degree. From the interrogations of Abu Zubaydah, Mohammed and other al-Qaeda prisoners, the CIA learned a lot more than it knew before about...
...Stoppard and David Hare. They write "important" plays about political issues or nuclear physics or Russian intellectuals. Ayckbourn's realm is more familiar: the domestic and romantic trials of modern middle-class Brits. Yet no one has probed more acutely, or with a finer balance of laughter and pain, the sad human comedy behind these tidy surfaces - the inability of people to connect, to see the casual cruelty they inflict on others, to come to terms with their failed illusions, to be happy...
...them. But in every instance, bar none, you later discover that they've just been lying or exaggerating, or telling you what they think you want to hear." In fact, a 1963 CIA interrogation manual warned that those resisting questioning "are likely to become intractable if made to endure pain" or generate "false, concocted as a means of escaping from distress...
...lack of a social safety net, with hundreds of millions of peasants lacking even basic health care, much less luxuries such as unemployment benefits or pensions. Now, faced by soaring unemployment and an accompanying rise in poverty, Beijing is scrambling to put in place measures that will ease the pain for the newly impoverished. Some 16 billion dollars has been budgeted by the central government for health and education in the coming years, and its chosen method of distributing the money is often those same village committees. "The push is on for rural community development centers that include such things...