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...bottom line is that we do not use torture." When Congress and the White House battled over detainee rights in 2006, Vice President Dick Cheney argued that techniques like simulated drowning didn't amount to torture. And last August, after the New Yorker reported the latest in a string of private memos sent to the U.S. government by the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) asserting that U.S. interrogation techniques were "tantamount to torture", President Bush said curtly, "We don't torture...
...Last month, young Catalan nationalists publicly set fire to photos of the visiting monarchs in Girona. The perpetrators were arrested, but they inspired a string of royal photo burnings in other parts of the region. In otherwise democratic Spain, an "attack on the dignity of the monarchy" is still a crime and the burnings, along with a few other anti-monarchical incidents, have sparked something of a crisis. Is this the beginning of the end for Spanish royal reverence...
...final whistle, ultimately coming up short by two goals.PRINCETON 10, HARVARD 8Serving as a precursor to the rest of the weekend, the Crimson jumped out to an early lead against the Tigers and held a 5-4 lead at the onset of the second quarter before succumbing to a string of turnovers and allowing Princeton to gain the lead in the second half and pull away for the victory.“We just had two minutes where there were a couple of turnovers, and the game just changed,” Ludwick said.Although the Crimson tried mounting a comeback...
...time period, Catalano said. “Callers will use a soft voice or a whisper to distract the person they are calling into thinking that it is someone they know calling,” Catalano wrote in an e-mailed statement yesterday. The reports are similar to a string of phone calls placed by a man known as the “serial whisperer,” who targeted female students by calling dorm numbers consecutively, often saying that he needed company or asking lewd questions. In 2001, HUPD ultimately traced the calls to South Florida, where local police...
...this breed. When the middle-aged gentleman is introduced, he seems unlikely to do anything interesting. The only surviving son of an ancient but dwindling Anglo-Catholic family, Guy lives in self-imposed exile, completely removed from his friends and relations while his estranged wife marries and divorces a string of wealthier and more fashionable men. The onset of World War II provides Guy one last chance at redemption and glory, but he soon finds the military to be full of cowards and lunatics, endlessly scheming against each other for their own narrow ends. For most of the first...