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...just struck me as very preppy. She was very much a product of the kind of strict, New England attitude and approach which is very different from my own,” says Porter-Lipscomb, who is from the South...
WHAT YOU DO The book doesn't lay out a strict plan but offers common-sense advice from "masters" who have lost 20 lbs. or more and kept the weight off for at least three years...
...Strict but colorful nuns and life-changing Jesuit priests also populate the former altar boy's fond rendering of the tight-knit Irish Catholic world of his childhood, where John F. Kennedy was king. It was good preparation for an early job working for New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan--Russert's intellectual father--who assured him that having hauled garbage during the summer, Russert would always have the advantage in a roomful of eggheads...
...Certainly there is a sense that you can’t hold on to these offers forever, but on the other hand there is no strict deadline,” Laibson said...
None of those techniques are legal under strict readings of international law. The Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment is perhaps the most relevant legal baseline, and it was interpreted by the first Bush Administration to mean that detainees should be protected from cruel and unusual punishment. The Geneva Conventions are also quite clear: "Prisoners of war who refuse to answer may not be threatened, insulted, or exposed to any unpleasant or disadvantageous treatment of any kind." Then again, the Geneva Conventions also require that prisoners be paid a daily wage. Much...