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Steady Art Beat Richard Lacayo blogs daily about art and architecture at time.com/lookingaround
...their prayers. And so we treat their pastors as partisan players, their churches as focus groups. How is that likely to affect the choices candidates make, the churches they join, the counsel they seek? Will they have to vet their congregations the way they do their Cabinets? Or follow Richard Nixon's example and move services into the White House, where he found them to be the ideal opportunity to reward friends and woo donors and twist arms, all the while singing, "He will hold me fast/ For my Saviour loves...
Michelle Obama infuriates and is targeted by conservatives because she is truthful and candid and does not mince words. I say, More power to her. Richard McCurdy, BURBANK, CALIF...
...variety of witnesses called before the committee tried to explain how the abusive interrogation system evolved, while minimizing their own responsibility. Richard Shiffren, a former deputy general counsel at the Pentagon dealing with intelligence, explained that the U.S. military lacked expertise in interrogation after 9/11, but was desperate to extract intelligence from prisoners captured on the battlefields of Afghanistan. Instead of consulting the FBI - an agency with long experience in conducting effective interrogations using lawful methods - the Pentagon opted to use the enemy tactics taught in the SERE program. Many of those have since been found to be illegal...
After Kelly's acquittal, Cook County State's Attorney Richard A. Devine defended up his team's decision not to call the alleged victim, saying, "We weren't going to open new wounds." He added, "Child pornography can be extremely difficult to prove - especially because the victims may not consider themselves to be victims. But we, as a community, have to stand up for them even if they fail to come forward and state what the evidence makes clear...