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...been drastically tightened--while still insisting the now banned techniques had never been approved for use. The fallout from the scandal may have a far-reaching impact that goes to the core of how the U.S. fights terrorism. Human rights groups have predicted that the Administration might come to rue the extremes to which it pushed the envelope on interrogation. "After 9/11 the government said we couldn't win the war on terror unless we had these kinds of policies," says Wendy Patten, U.S. advocacy director of Human Rights Watch. "Now we may be losing the war on terror because...
Could it be that the average Iraqi citizen has no job and is left with nothing to do but wage war and rue the indignities of a foreign occupation? Wouldn't an economic strategy that puts most Iraqis to work defuse the escalating hostilities? Applying American brainpower instead of firepower might serve to temper the Iraqis' unfortunate propensity for self-destruction. CHRISTINE E. BRADY Chula Vista, Calif...
...train window as it pulls out of the busy urban station. In the crowd of soldiers and milling civilians he spies his chunky colleague, Bob, who chases after the train, waving for Burma to get off. Suddenly, Bob clutches his chest. He shouts an address, "120, rue de la Gare," and falls, the back of his coat soaked in blood from multiple gunshots. As Burma tumbles out of the train, a beautiful girl in a trench coat stands in the shadows with a pistol in her slender hand. Burma passes...
...mystery begins, but not on the streets of L.A., Chicago or New York. This is "The Bloody Streets of Paris," (ibooks; 192 pp.; $17.95), Jacques Tardi's comix adaptation of Leo Malet's 1942 French detective novel, "120, rue de la Gare." Instead of fedoras you get berets. Instead of bars you get cafes. But pretty much everything else that typifies the P.I. genre - sleazebags, oafish cops and beautiful girls - stays the same. With a fascinating French twist, the action takes place during the Nazi occupation. Where most detective fiction involves a city unofficially run by gangsters, here the villains...
...Signing Off U.K. banknote printer De La Rue - supplier of Iraq's Saddam-free dinars - called an end to its production of checkbooks, in response to a steep slide in the use of personal checks...