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...images out of Abu Ghraib prison fit into the canon of torture tactics? Soldiers claim they were told by military intelligence officers to "soften up" the detainees for questioning. Certainly, putting hoods over prisoners' heads and stripping them naked would conform to common, if primitive, interrogation-prep tactics. Ilan Kutz, an Israeli psychiatrist who has witnessed military training for interrogations, confirms that sexual humiliation is also a well-known tool. "The idea of interrogation is to break down the person so all his resistance is shot, and then he'll tell you anything," he says. "In the process, sexual humiliation...
Spending immense sums on getting into college is hardly the newest fashion; in fact, the college admissions industry has been sprawling for several years. Countless SAT prep classes, essay-editing services and college consulting companies offer costly programs. For instance, IvySuccess provides a “Complete Strategy” service for the bargain price of $18,000, all but urging parents to get a second mortgage on their home to ensure their child gets into the right school. To be sure, the market for more affordable products such as the popular SAT review books is very reasonable considering...
...social energy in it,” Kerry told an MTV reporter in March, “and I think you’d better listen to it pretty carefully, ’cause it’s important”), and is known to have played bass with prep-school surf band The Electras. Last year, the Washington Post reported that Kerry was taking classical guitar lessons and slipping in a bit of those same Beatles (“Yesterday,” from a time right before the decidedly-Commie Rubber Soul but not so long after...
...club social life and midday Yard interactions), I think Harvard is struggling to balance the old-school traditions of boat shoes and the Cape on the one hand, and its current attempts at diversity on the other. The student body has settled at a level of neo-prep, meaning that kids who wear the polos with the collars up may or may not be WASP-y lacrosse players who belong to the Fly. It’s hard to tell—a kind of hip New York attitude mixes itself in, jeans are suddenly more apropos than...
Okay, to be honest, I’m not really nostalgic for the 50s; I’m just drawn to drive-ins for their kitschy aspect—the same reason prep school guys recently took to wearing trucker hats. But when it comes down to an evening of entertainment and five bucks—that’s enough motivation...