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...think about all the changes I’ve had in college—how I reverted to wearing loafers, the staple of my adolescence, sometime during sophomore fall; how junior year I once grimaced at the sight of my roommate wearing a T-shirt under his dress shirt (similar to the look I sport in the picture); and how this year my wardrobe consists of lux sweaters in various shades of blue and grey and moccasins by Ermenegildo Zegna—I look back at that picture and wonder if I’m even the same person.In...
...Where similar cases, from Rodney King in Los Angeles to Sean Bell in New York, have provoked protests and even violence, the reaction in Philadelphia has been muted ever since a news helicopter caught more than a dozen white officers kicking and beating three black men who were arrested as suspects in a shooting on a city street. "This was just a very unusual situation and I think the public reacted to it as an unusual situation," says Mayor Michael Nutter, who was swift to denounce the beatings after the tape showed on local television. "It doesn't represent anywhere...
...seem to be responding aggressively to the beating. "They jumped on it right away, they didn't hesitate," Mondesire says. "They immediately stepped into the investigation, they immediately took them off street duty, which is different" from the official response to previous brutality cases in the city, including the similar case of Thomas Jones, whose beating by city police was caught on camera...
...only time Qahtani has spoken publicly, following a military legal review of his case in 2006, he made clear that all of his statements concerning himself or others were obtained by torture, or the threat of torture. Other prisoners at Guantanamo have made similar claims. But in an apparent attempt to elicit compromising information from them that would not be tainted by torture, the government has requestioned many of them using less coercive techniques, supposedly making their new statements admissible in court. Unlike those prisoners, however, Qahtani's lawyers say he has not been requestioned. The U.S. has also admitted...
...environmentalist and anti-globalist who sat in the public gallery during the vote, had a similar message. "This is a collective victory for the citizens of this country who refuse GMOs," he said. "The government will not be able to do anything it wants after this...