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...used him as an experiment in righteous brutality that in the end produced very little. His interrogation, according to those overseeing it, yielded little from threats and torture. He named countless targets inside the U.S. to stop the pain, all of them immaterial. Indeed, think back to the sudden slew of alerts in the spring and summer of 2002 about attacks on apartment buildings, banks, shopping malls and, of course, nuclear plants. What little of value he did tell us came largely from a more sophisticated approach, using his religious belief in predestination to convince him he miraculously survived...
...Blair has continually refused to specify when he'll retire. When he reiterated that in an interview last week, however, one of those strange tipping points in politics was galvanized. Without Brown's apparent direction, a slew of backbenchers decided Blair was becoming an electoral liability they could no longer ignore. The Conservatives, under their new telegenic leader David Cameron, were ahead in a recent poll by 9 points, which is shocking to a Labour Party that has been ahead for more than a decade, and many Labour activists are worried about regional elections scheduled for the spring. A Downing...
...round out a slew of big introductory lecture classes, take a freshman seminar—they’re all pass-fail, and many are taught by some of the biggest names in the College’s faculty. This is one-on-one time with hot-shot professors that you won’t get otherwise...
...meet the demands of this growing demographic of impatient and increasingly sophisticated Asians, private banks now offer a slew of new investment products. One of the most popular: so-called structured notes, which are complex derivatives that often pay a guaranteed minimum return like bonds, or pay above the minimum depending upon the performance of other asset classes, such as stock-market indexes or commodities. "The beauty of structured products is you can tailor them to clients' needs," says Gary Tiernan, head of product management for Deutsche Bank in Asia. It's a buoyant enough business that Deutsche...
...when Barton premiered Sculthorpe's revised (Ubirr) String Quartet No. 12. The composer was so impressed he went on to write other new works for Barton, whose playing he described as "summoning up the whole landscape." The musical chemistry was palpable, and the classical world soon came courting. A slew of commissions, CDs and concert tours has bulked up Barton's impressive c.v., culminating in a performance at the Cit? de la Musique in Paris last November. "I tell you, he was a superstar," reports composer Lim, who was on hand. And refreshingly down-to-earth. While taking a break...