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...We’re scrubbing the whole thing. It will be replaced,” one Department of Justice official told USA Today, aptly if unwittingly evoking the coming whitewash. The White House and the Department of Justice distanced themselves from Bybee’s memo. But this cold-shoulder treatment was almost entirely without consequence: even as the memo’s interpretations were publicly renounced, they were quietly transferred—whole paragraphs verbatim—into subsequent memos, which are still operative. As for Bybee himself, the Senate had already confirmed him for a lifetime seat...

Author: By Curtis M. Brown, | Title: Whitewashing Torture | 3/20/2006 | See Source »

...like painting or poetry - it's an art. And though Mehdi is good, he's not yet an artist." The corrida (tournament) highlighted Savalli's weaknesses as well as his strengths. He displayed the showmanship for which he is known - passes on his knees, cape tosses over the shoulder - and killed his first bull with aplomb. But his second opponent proved feistier, and Savalli partially missed his target, leaving a sword dangling from the bull's shoulder. This error cost him any chance of winning a trophy. "The Madrid bullring is the toughest in the world," Savalli said afterward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Talented Torero | 3/19/2006 | See Source »

...toward the corner of the room where she and her younger brother Abdul Rahman, 8, were hiding; the other adults shielded the children from the bullets but died in the process. Eman says her leg was hit by a piece of metal and Abdul Rahman was shot near his shoulder. "We were lying there, bleeding, and it hurt so much. Afterward, some Iraqi soldiers came. They carried us in their arms. I was crying, shouting 'Why did you do this to our family?' And one Iraqi soldier tells me, 'We didn't do it. The Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Collateral Damage or Civilian Massacre in Haditha? | 3/19/2006 | See Source »

...toward the corner of the room where she and her younger brother Abdul Rahman, 8, were hiding; the other adults shielded the children from the bullets but died in the process. Eman says her leg was hit by a piece of metal and Abdul Rahman was shot near his shoulder. "We were lying there, bleeding, and it hurt so much. Afterward, some Iraqi soldiers came. They carried us in their arms. I was crying, shouting 'Why did you do this to our family?' And one Iraqi soldier tells me, 'We didn't do it. The Americans did.'" Time was unable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Collateral Damage or Civilian Massacre in Haditha? | 3/19/2006 | See Source »

...fate of the kingdom of Rohan is hanging by a thread as the evil Orcs swarm the mountain fortress of Helm?s Deep. Under blood-red clouds, Aragorn and his small band of men stand shoulder to shoulder against the invading hordes, who are hobbling around on freakish weapon/crutches. The elf warrior Legolas mounts a promontory to fire arrows at the Orc targets: FFWWOOSH, FFWWOOSH, FFWWOOSH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bringing Lord of the Rings to the Stage | 3/17/2006 | See Source »

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