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DeSalvo, on the other hand, was a nightmare straight out of Thomas Harris. Born into a violent home in a rough neighborhood, he was a perfect storm of another kind--handsome enough to talk his way into women's homes, sick enough to rape and kill, smart enough to cover his tracks afterward. "All I know is that something would happen and I would have my arms around their necks," he told an investigator. (Junger makes extensive and creepily effective use of police transcripts.) DeSalvo sometimes posed his victims after the crime for shock value and left the victim...
...Rough Treatment "One Life inside Gitmo" [March 13] reported that Mohammed al-Qahtani, the Saudi accused of being the so-called 20th hijacker on 9/11, was coerced into confessing his ties to al-Qaeda. When we obtain information from prisoners by denying them basic human rights and decency, then we are no better than the very organizations we are fighting. Against whom will the abusive interrogation techniques be used next-hardened criminals, drug dealers and political activists? Gilbert Laraque Miami...
...pitched like a senior should pitch,” Brown said. “When he hit a rough patch, he just blew right through...
...rough draft I did in the summer after my first year. I actually received a grant from Stanford to work on the book. I worked on that rough draft after that first summer, and then over classes or between classes, on weekends. I was able to do some writing while I was in the lab, while waiting for experiments and things like that...
...still beaten and killed by the police. If the government responded this way in the U.S., riots would break out. The Chinese seem almost to have accepted that they can't do anything. Their government controls them completely, and that is manifestly unfair. Amrita Jagpal West Chester, Ohio, U.S. Rough Treatment "One life inside Gitmo" [March 13] reported that Mohammed al-Qahtani, the Saudi accused of being the so-called 20th hijacker on 9/11, was coerced into confessing his ties to al-Qaeda. When we obtain information from prisoners by denying them basic human rights and decency, then...