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...only reports of what happens inside of Guantánamo are leaked memos and words of some of captives who are lucky enough to be released. Most of these in detention inside Guantánamo are likely to remain there forever—lest they come out and speak of their torture ordeals, claims an attorney at the ACLU. Guantánamo is only one small part of a series of serious human rights violations around the world. The CIA has been actively involved in an “extraordinary rendition” program under which possible suspects are arrested...

Author: By Samad Khurram | Title: Exporting Rights Violations | 4/14/2008 | See Source »

...before I was nobody / I was me after / I was nobody I / was me.” In “Fidelity,” Grace Paley’s newest and last book, Paley is completely comfortable with her identity and feels free to speak frankly. Written shortly before her death at 84, the collection lays bare all aspects of Paley’s life and concisely presents her thoughts on a wide range of subjects. While some of this subject matter can seem simplistic, Paley’s voice keeps the collection engaging, her personal sensitivity and honesty...

Author: By David S. Wallace, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Laconic Paley Says It All | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

Mansfield said that Harvard professors were hesitant to speak at the conference...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mansfield 'Pricks' P.C. Harvard | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

...that the warmth will never touch them? They will give up, and wither, and die. Such a garden would soon be only of use or interest to ourselves, because therein we should recognize and acknowledge a metaphor—”“Don’t speak,” Felicity interrupted. She impaled her crumpet with a fork.The dispute continued, neither of the two particularly invested in its outcome, and both of them unwilling to stand up and go inside. The tea had been finished, and the evaporated dregs had left small, withered flecks...

Author: By Lesley R. Winters | Title: The Stable Boy | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

...parent company, alone, has bought tea makers Tetley and steel giant Corus) and that's likely to continue, not only because Britain is a vibrant, open economy but because the shared history does count for something. "More than 200 years we were together," says Kochhar. "And any people who speak the same language have an understanding. Irrespective of the kind of things that happened in our past we owe a lot to Britain. And now that it's our turn in the sun of course we look at British things in a desirable way." It's not that being British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How India 'Colonized' Britain | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

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