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...superior government intelligence and judicious use of the money Hearing all of this, Representative Jeb Hensarling, a Texas Republican, said "The public and this panel have a right to know how Treasury defines success. For many it is difficult to discern." That was the most pertinent question during the proceedings and the one Geither least wanted to answer. So, he did not. He had learned the lesson that transparency only leads to a call for more transparency and then there is no end to explaining what should be explained to Congress and taxpayers about how the billions of dollars meant...
...study in question by Kundermann, which was published in 2004 in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine, found that people who were deprived of sleep for one night had an increased sensitivity to certain types of pain. Two Justice Department memos, dated May 10, 2005, cited this study as justification to conclude that severe sleep deprivation of up to 180 consecutive hours might cause some increased pain but not "severe physical pain" when used in conjunction with facial slaps, stress positions, water dousing and walling, in which a detainee is slammed against a flexible wall...
...Critics of such claims argue that what was thwarted were merely al-Qaeda fantasies. "Torture gets people to talk - no question," says a former senior U.S. national security official involved in such matters. "They talk and talk and talk, until you stop hurting 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...
...most important since Nelson Mandela led his nation to overthrow apartheid 15 years ago. How so, when the result - a landslide for the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and the election of its leader Jacob Zuma to the presidency - is barely in doubt? Here's TIME's quick question-and-answer guide to South Africa's general election: (Read "Why South Africa's Over The Rainbow...
...question now is whether Rozsa, a Hungarian-Bolivian, felt that way about Bolivian President Evo Morales. Rozsa was killed early last Thursday morning in a hotel room in the eastern Bolivian city of Santa Cruz. The government claims that he, along with four others, was part of a terrorist cell that was plotting to assassinate Bolivia's first indigenous President as well as other high government officials. "He went to Santa Cruz because he wanted to fight for autonomy of that region, which he said was his new and most important task," says Rozsa's close friend, Zoltan Brady...