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...science fiction in Toward the End of Time, for example, and a retelling of the Hamlet story in Gertrude and Claudius. But at his very best, as in the Rabbit novels - two of which won Pulitzer Prizes - or his 1968 shocker, Couples, in which he dove fearlessly into the sexual revolution, he looked deeply and clearly into the swamps of human experience and reported back to us what he saw with a matchless precision and a warm, generous judgment. (Read a 1968 TIME cover story on Updike...
...Prohibited interrogation methods that many would say constitute torture: "Forcing the detainee to be naked, perform sexual acts, or pose in a sexual manner; Placing hoods or sacks over the head of a detainee; using duct tape over the eyes; Applying beatings, electric shock, burns, or other forms of physical pain; "Waterboarding"; Using military working dogs; Inducing hypothermia or heat injury; Conducting mock executions; Depriving the detainee of necessary food, water, or medical care...
...Then again, contemporary reality does have some useful innovations. Like an enlightened approach to sexual violence, for example. Here's Kyle's frat brother Joey, a putative good guy and our second male lead, thinking back on his memories of that night with his frat brothers: "If a girl consents to sex," he wonders, "can she change her mind once things are underway? Or if she consents to sex, then blacks out halfway through the act, how can she later claim she'd changed her mind? Difficult questions, and Joey wrestled with them as he drove...
...think some people were surprised that the data from existing studies show that while sexual predation on minors by adults remains a serious concern, cases typically involve post-pubescent minors who were aware they were meeting an adult male for purposes of sexual activity,” Sacco wrote. “Somewhat different than the more common image of an older male deceiving and preying on young child...
...about the risks posed to youth. Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, who last fall initiated “The Massachusetts Strategic Plan for Cyber Crime,” said in a press release that while she didn’t want to downplay the degree of risk posed by sexual predators, “we must remember that the Internet is an ever-changing and dynamic space...