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...Larry Summers was named Harvard President, a job possibly more prestigious and political than his gig as Bill Clinton's Treasury Secretary. After bruising some Harvard egos with his acerbity, he has launched a $2 million student-aid plan that might help soften his image. TIME's John Cloud spoke with Summers about changes at Harvard and other matters beyond the Ivy League halls...
...disgust" with the crimes and vowed that those responsible would be brought to justice. Six soldiers face courts-martial over the affair, and the officer in charge of the prison, Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, has been suspended. Attorneys for the accused say their clients were only following orders to soften up the prisoners for interrogation and that the guards are being made scapegoats. Major General Geoffrey Miller, the former head of operations at the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is now running the prison...
...Still, in answering questions from Rhode Island Democratic senator Jack Reed about whether instructions may have been issued to "soften up" detainees for interrogation, Rumsfeld made what may be the central point of the events at Abu Ghraib. Interrogation of suspects, he explained, was an essential part of protecting U.S. soldiers in Iraq. And that brings several unresolved issues squarely into focus...
...sometimes have considerable popular support, and they are difficult to distinguish from the civilian population. Under such conditions, interrogation tactics may be necessary to save lives. The key question, though, is whether the prison guards acted on their own, or whether Military Intelligence had issued any general instructions to "soften up" the detainees ahead of interrogations - as those charged with carrying the abuses argue in their defense. No clear answer on this question emerged in Friday's testimony...
PUMP UP CASH Instead of holding 5% to 10% in a money-market fund, hold 10% to 15%. The cushion will trim returns in normal times, but soften any declines and give you means to buy on a terrorism-related dip. The Dow rebounded 4% after the Madrid sell-off. That's a fairly normal pattern, according to Markethistory.com...