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Highlight Reel:1. On the new interrogation tactics he was trained to utilize: "The quickest way to get most (but not all) captives talking is to be nice to them. But what does it mean to be "nice" to a subject under interrogation? ... It means, ideally, getting to know the subject better than he knows himself and then manipulating him by role-playing, flattering, misleading, and nudging his or her perception of the truth slightly off center. The goal is to turn the subject around so that he begins to see strong logic and even wisdom in acting against...
Highlight Reel:1. On his fondness for toxic substances: MacDonald was something of an alcoholic, though he might be loathe to use that particular term. His ability to consume beer in impossibly large quantities had been well established at Yale. ("MacDonald, perhaps you could trade this for a six-pack?" one of his instructors had quipped when handing him a diploma.) Recalling his college days, MacDonald writes, "I had fun. Loads of it. And not the kind of fun people look back on ten years later and regret. I didn't hurt anybody. I didn't steal anything. I didn...
Highlight Reel 1. Journey: "Don't Stop Believing," 1981 "You can tell something about a person's relationship to popular music as a whole by how they feel about this song. Generally, people fall into two camps. If they have at one time considered it a "guilty pleasure," a dim-witted power ballad made by guys with bad haircuts to be enjoyed despite its inherent cheesiness, they probably identify most with indie music of some stripe. If they just plain like it and always have, then they've probably spent their lives enjoying whatever was on the radio...
Highlight reel: 1. On "securing stable and sustainable energy supplies and mitigating climate change": More than 30% of U.S oil imports come from Latin American nations, a level that outstrips even that which we take from the Middle East. Given America's checkered standing in the region, it's an alarming figure. In order to avoid being held hostage by fluctuations in the price of crude, the authors recommend developing sustainable energy infrastructures-an endeavor that will also help to suppress climate change. "The link between carbon-intensive activities and changes in the world's climate is now well established...
...Highlight Reel 1. On the conflicting loyalties and complicated relationships among native Americans and Mexicans in the borderlands: "Having made peace with an Apache band, it was not uncommon for a Mexican village to undertake a thriving trade with their new associates in goods seized from other settlements. '[W]hat was stolen from one Mexican found ready sale to another,' noted an observer, 'the plunder from Senora finding its way into the hands of the settlers of Chihuahua, or... selling without trouble to the Mexicans living along the Rio Grande...