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Parker described himself as a skeptic of suggestions that restricted use of torture for information-gaining purposes would lead to greater injustices...

Author: By Nathan J. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HLS Panel Debates Ethics of Torture | 2/28/2003 | See Source »

J.F.K. was a nervous man on the morning Alan Shepard climbed into Freedom 7. Always a skeptic about the technical claims of engineers and scientists, Kennedy glumly watched Shepard's launch with his hands jammed in his pockets, expecting the worst. Yet Shepard went smoothly in and out of space in 15 minutes and got the monkey off Kennedy's back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Great Quest Takes Its Toll | 2/10/2003 | See Source »

...appeared the deck was stacked against MacDonald as she took her position on the rug at center ice and awkwardly grasped an oversized hockey stick. Any skeptic had their doubts confirmed when her first of three shots sailed wide left...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Record Crowd Fills Bright for W. Hockey | 2/10/2003 | See Source »

...power to energize and reshape the bureaucracy comes from his political skills. A long-time Democrat who worked on the staff of the Senate Intelligence Committee under then chairman David Boren, Tenet knows how to get the right information across and has earned the trust not just of CIA skeptic Bill Clinton but also of George W. Bush and his father, who once ran the CIA and whom Tenet occasionally briefed. "He's tried to serve all his masters as fairly and as effectively as he can," says the senior intelligence official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The CIA's Secret Army: George Tenet's Burden of Proof | 2/3/2003 | See Source »

...Hero?Zhang's attempt to explode in the worldwide movie market as Ang Lee did with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon?is a lucid and cunning drama: ancient history (3rd century B.C.) refracted through a modern skeptic's sensibility. It views the birth of a nation through the murky motives of some of the first Emperor's potential assassins. For they are as duplicitous in their emotional lives as in their fatal politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Mood for Swordplay | 12/15/2002 | See Source »

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