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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...believe every problem has a simple solution, and that solution is usually to do nothing. So I'm fully supporting Vote No on Everything, an organization started by Los Angeles doctor Reed Levine. You can tell this is a serious effort because the website sells T shirts. Levine realized the initiative system was faulty right after he voted for a $10 billion high-speed train and then wondered if $10 billion was a bargain or a rip-off for a high-speed train. His plan appeals to me, since if we vote against everything, our elected officials will be forced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joel Stein on California's State of Insanity | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

...them to think you know almost everything to know about them - their families, their friends, their movements - then you've got an advantage," he says. "Because then they're thinking, 'Well, this guy already knows so much, there's no point in resisting ... I might as well tell him everything.'" When Abu Zubaydah tried to conceal his identity after his capture, Soufan stunned him by using the nickname given to him by his mother. "Once I called him 'Hani,' he knew the game was up," Soufan says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Waterboarding: How to Make Terrorists Talk? | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

...nearby. "I'd say to them, 'As soon as your friends know you've been captured, they'll assume that you're going to give them up, and they'll run for it. So if you want to help yourself, to get a lighter sentence, you've got to tell me everything right now, because in a couple of hours you'll have nothing of value to trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Waterboarding: How to Make Terrorists Talk? | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

...tell you the truth, they were rude.' RAMON HUERTA, a retired chef, on the L.A. police officers who mistakenly raided his home during the largest gang crackdown in U.S. history, which yielded more than 90 arrests in a single...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

...tell them to back off.' DANIEL HAUSER, a 13-year-old cancer patient from Minnesota, on critics who say he is too young to determine his course of treatment. Hauser briefly fled the state with his mother to avoid court-ordered chemotherapy, which violates his religious beliefs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

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