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...steeper financial falls," writes Los Angeles Times reporter Peter Gosselin in his new book High Wire: The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families. This Great Risk Shift from governments and corporations to individuals, as Yale political scientist Jacob Hacker labeled it in the title of another book on the subject, has become one of the defining economic realities of our age. Some aspects of it are still in dispute: economists can't seem to agree on whether jobs really have become less secure than they were. But others are undeniable. "No one argues that Americans aren't shouldering more...
...military investigation concluded Qahtani had been subject to abuse - which included sexual humiliation, religious humiliation, intimidation by dogs, prolonged isolation and extremes of cold that, at one point, caused his pulse to drop to 35 beats per minute, requiring immediate hospitalization. No one was ever punished for having ordered the abuse or carrying it out. "The dismissal of charges clearly indicates the government's awareness that any and all statements obtained from Mohammad Qahtani were extracted by torture or the threat of torture," Gitanjali Guitierrez, his lawyer with the Center for Constitutional Rights, told TIME...
...Newport Harbor: The Real Orange County.” Even as I followed the lives and dramas of Newport’s privileged teens, I found myself wondering why. It’s not difficult to become caught up in reality shows, but their appeal proves subject to a paradox. They end up exposing the very fact we try to escape by watching in the first place: Most people’s lives are really boring...
...Poisoned Atmosphere The outcome of the elections could spell the end of Serbia's European dreams. Moderate voices are in retreat. The centrist president Boris Tadic, who publicly endorsed a "stabilization" agreement aimed at starting negotiations to join the E.U, has become the subject of a hate campaign. After the signing of the E.U. agreement, the nationalist tabloid Kurir carried a photo of Tadic and a colleague toasting the deal under the headline "Serbian Pigs Rejoice! They Gave Away Kosovo!" Tadic reportedly received a letter recently accusing him of "treason" and promising him "a bullet in the forehead." Authorities...
...journal subscriptions, unless the policy were to spread much more extensively than it has so far. Darnton has made online publishing a priority since arriving at Harvard last year from Princeton. In addition to collaborating with Palfrey on the Law School proposal, Darnton has also worked to digitize subject-specific collections in the library—notably through Harvard’s participation in the Google Book Search initiative—and said that he hopes Harvard will continue to share its “intellectual riches” with the rest of the world. “These...