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...avoid taking a bath at unreasonable times, and [should not] eat junk food." More ominously, they must avoid "speaking ill of others," mentioning "topics that are not related to the matters being discussed," and expressing "disloyalty to the State." Anyone who criticizes the forum is subject to a prison sentence of up to 20 years. Speaking to people inside Burma by telephone, I felt the sense of frustration that the convention has inspired in them. A well-known political commentator in Rangoon told me: "I am now quite skeptical of the whole thing, but if I begin to voice...
Iraq: How Did It Come to This? The cold and inhuman acts of abuse committed at the Abu Ghraib prison are, sadly, the first signs of the decline of a great power. Claudia Eslava Miami...
...stream-of-thought speech that lasted 35 minutes," groused a G.O.P. Representative, adding that the applause afterward was only "polite." Others were miffed that Bush took no questions--even though microphones had been set out in the audience for the lawmakers--and said nothing at all about the prison-abuse scandal. Instead, he pleaded for patience on the war with "the same boilerplate speech we've heard before," said a G.O.P. Senator...
...Ghraib prison in Iraq has been a public relations nightmare for the Bush Administration. But the prison was once a site where Saddam Hussein brutally tortured his own citizens, and this week the White House will get a chance to remind Americans of that--and provide some more news that is uplifting...
SENTENCED. JEREMY SIVITS, 24, U.S. Army specialist; to one year in jail and a bad-conduct discharge; for taking pictures of naked Iraqi prisoners being humiliated; in the first court-martial stemming from abuse at Abu Ghraib prison; in Baghdad...