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...their control to sexual humiliation and physical pain. When detainees were reluctant to strip, he said, Graner punched one in the temple so hard, he lost consciousness. Sivits said the blow apparently injured Graner's hand, quoting Graner as saying, "Damn, that hurt." After naked prisoners were forced to pile up on the floor, Sergeant Javal Davis jumped into the human heap and stamped on fingers or toes. Frederick seemed "mellow" when he commanded prisoners to masturbate. Once, for no particular reason, said Sivits, Graner beat a prisoner's buckshot wound with a police baton. "The detainee begged Graner, 'Mister...
...maltreatment and committing indecent acts. According to Graner, the photos, taken from a vantage point above graphic scenes previously made public, show two more sergeants from the 372nd and four military-intelligence officers watching with him as a chubby man in fatigues pushes naked Iraqi prisoners into a pile. Graner says the plump man is a civilian intelligence contractor and the military intelligence guys include two high-ranking sergeants. The pictures, attorney Womack told TIME, prove Graner was not giving orders but taking them...
...computer game you couldn't avoid at the big Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles last week was The Sims 2. Its booth was front and center in the main hall, and it stood out like a Philip Roth novel atop a pile of Tom Clancy paperbacks...
...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.’s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up we decide C- (Harvard being Harvard, we do not give D’s. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn’t thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. “Locke is a transitional figure...
Artful equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.’s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. “The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud.” (V.G.); “But whether or not this is a good thing...