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...with Iran, Saddam barred newspapers from publishing wake notices; he worried that the sheer numbers of such notices would advertise just how badly his ill-judged war was going and demoralize his subjects. (Ironically, the current Iraqi government has taken a page out of the Saddam's rulebook, suppressing monthly death tolls and barring journalists and photographers from the scene of bomb blasts.) Undeterred by the dictator's orders, Iraqis developed a new custom: families in mourning painted notices on black banners - the name of the deceased, the manner of their death and the date and location of the wake...
...when considering membership in these organizations,” and that’s it. It’s admirable that the College has realized that, despite warnings from administrators, students overindulge at off-campus parties frequently enough to merit more than passing mention in Harvard’s rulebook...
...officials, and currently the CIA director himself, "must approve - prior to use - each and every one of the lawful interrogation procedures to be used." It also says questioning sessions are constantly monitored "by non-participants" who are authorized to end a session instantly over the slightest variation from the rulebook. It says the CIA requires that its interrogators, whose average age is 43, receive "more than 250 hours of specialized training before they are allowed to come face-to-face with a terrorist," followed by supervised fieldwork before they can direct an interrogation. Detainees are also questioned by subject-matter...
...sessions and then fought the matter through the courts as White House aides cringed. He didn't hear them on torture and ran way past the fence line last year in trying to prevent the enactment of John McCain's reasonable insistence that Army interrogators stick to the rulebook. And I'm betting he didn't hear them last weekend in Texas, when he should have realized that the actions of a vice president are never private. But he's a veep without a future, and that means he doesn't have his ears...
...week ago, the team engaged in a little intrasquad East-West rivalry, a foot race for coastal supremacy. Under Walsh’s direction, a piggyback element found its way into the race’s rulebook. A casual onlooker, upon entering the compound, might have happened upon 215-pound All-Ivy catcher Schuyler O. Mann ’05 atop the back of first baseman W. Rob Wheeler ’05. Team West suffered when Wheeler stumbled. “He did a complete swan-dive face-plant,” according to Salsgiver, and Mann...