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...federal judge, Bybee, 55, led the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel from November 2001 to March 2003 and signed off on a 2002 memo, recently released by the Obama Administration, authorizing the rough stuff in clinical detail. Along with his deputy John Yoo, Bybee infamously claimed that interrogation practices aren't legally torture unless they inflict pain resembling that of "serious physical injury" such as organ failure or death. While supporters say the policies helped keep the country safe in the wake of Sept. 11, critics say the memos are illegal and helped pave...
...women's underwear, eating the same meal each day and performing elaborate foul-line rituals - talk of a Madden Curse doesn't seem to have caught much traction. And for good reason. Most of the under-performing cover stars were felled by injury - a common affliction in a brutally rough sport: According to a 2005 study, nearly 70% of football players suffer an injury each year. Those whose skills seemed to dwindle during their cover season may simply have peaked quickly in a sport whose shelf lives are disconcertingly brief...
...Friere’s former flair for pairing reckless abandon with nuanced maturity was completely absent from this performance. The attack of the opening octave cascade was overly cautious, and Sung’s uninvolved conducting generated orchestral accompaniment that further quenched any musical excitement. Friere’s rough phrasing of the second movement’s main theme disrupted the chordal harmonies in Grieg’s composition, interrupting the audience’s imagination of the majestic fjords and luscious landscape of the composer’s native Norway. In the third movement, Friere?...
...injuries and ineffectiveness that have plagued many of the Crimson’s veteran pitchers, the Harvard staff is comprised largely of freshmen. The team’s rookie hurlers have displayed potential and turned out some impressive performances this season, but at times their inexperience has produced rough outings.That was the case in the opener of Saturday’s twinbill, in which the freshman trio of Jonah Klees, Jeff Reynolds, and Marcus Way was unable to minimize its struggles and fell victim to a hard-hitting Big Green lineup. Klees failed to make it out of the second...
...shudder at the prospect of Zuma assuming control of one of Africa's most successful democracies. An uneducated freedom fighter who hoisted himself out of poverty and served a prison sentence alongside Nelson Mandela under South Africa's Apartheid regime, Zuma is heralded as a canny politician whose rough-hewn populism - his unofficial song is the Zulu anthem "Bring Me My Machine Gun", which he's been known to sing at jam-packed rallies - has proven an irresistible lure for many. But his career has been plagued by accusations of corruption and rape, and a succession of gaffes that betrayed...