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...stop the pain" whereas persuasive techniques would encourage them to tell the truth. That doesn't make sense to me. I don't like torture either, but if it proves to obtain information that puts a stop to future bloodshed - as it has, according to experts - then I say please resume. John Stern, Grand Haven, Mich...
Geithner has said he'd like to see the board reduced to 20 seats, with more say for the BRIC bloc. Although that makes economic sense, it will be very hard to achieve, warns Prasad: "It's a zero-sum game: for someone to gain a bigger role, someone else has to lose theirs...
...garden-variety prisoners who would respond to persuasion; they have proved to be hate-filled extremists who place no value on human life. I don't like torture either, but if it obtains information that puts a stop to future bloodshed - as it has, according to experts - then I say please resume. John Stern, GRAND HAVEN, MICH...
...Say What? Please stop quoting U.S. college graduates like Graham Boyd - whom I would have failed in primary school - who massacre English: "Searching a backpack is dramatically different than [from] asking a student to take their [his or her] clothes off" [Verbatim, May 4]. It's, like, embarrassing, man, when you use TIME to teach people English. Frank O'Meara, L'ISLE-ADAM, FRANCE
...French supermarket giant Carrefour at the Mid Valley Megamall in Kuala Lumpur is overwhelmingly halal, with an elaborate system to keep halal foods separate from the haram ones. Goods that divide scholars on whether they're halal or haram because they could have trace elements of wine - Balsamic vinegar, say, or Kikkoman Marinade - get slapped with little green stickers to alert customers. More blatantly haram items are confined to La Cave, a glassed-in room at the back of the store for goods containing alcohol, pork or tobacco. Wearing special blue gloves, La Cave's staff handle haram goods...