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...best, an upperclass House at Harvard becomes a home, even an extended family. Much more than a merely a place to sleep and take meals, a house provides the intangible learning opportunities and friendships that will be remembered long after recollections of courses or academics have faded...
...mosque's garden. Sitting among the soldiers were several civilians wearing bandoliers of ammunition and carrying a variety of automatic rifles. They were local Lebanese villagers, many of them ex-militiamen from Lebanon's 16-year civil war, who had volunteered to fight the militants alongside the army. "No sleep for three days," said one militiaman with a grim smile...
...soldiers were following orders, why did they photograph themselves in the act? The MPs claim the pictures too were meant to serve as a psychological tool to scare new prisoners into talking. Frederick's uncle says the platoon had tried to soften them up with techniques like sleep deprivation, "but they found the best way was with these photographs, and it apparently worked very effectively." Lawson says his nephew complained about some of the measures and was told, "Don't worry about it." Yet the photos, showing MPs smiling and mugging as they degrade their prisoners, suggest that the accused...
...repair the damage. Major General Miller has been hustled back to Baghdad to fix the prison system. He promised to halve the number of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and end the practice of hooding captives. But he refused to entirely rule out the use of other tactics, like sleep deprivation and "stress positions," if they were approved by a senior officer. A senior Pentagon official says Rumsfeld has taken a personal interest in coming up with a dollar figure to compensate Iraqis who have been wronged. Abizaid tells TIME that he thinks the outrage will fade as the U.S. demonstrates...
...whispering and then there’s “just-as-loud-as-talking whispering.” We’re sure the gossip is juicy like whoa, but we don’t care. Times are rough. Sometimes you’ve gotta sleep in Lamont. But, don’t snore. Please...