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While students and faculty members are applauding the initiative to increase curricular arts opportunities, some worry that doing so will present logistical difficulties and will threaten the extracurricular arts atmosphere at Harvard...
MIND GAMES Interrogators cajole, scare or confuse prisoners. They threaten to send captives to countries with a known history of torture, like Egypt or Morocco. Occasionally the U.S. has carried out that threat...
...years after Saddam's shattering defeat in the Gulf War, the Iraqi dictator remains in full control of the Baghdad government ... Every step he takes has been aimed at buttressing his authority ... Saddam's power base remains solid ... 'When things threaten to fall apart,' says Baghdad novelist Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, 'you stick with the man who can hold it together.' ... Citizens are unlikely to be moved by the U.S. report made public last week cataloging just how brutally Saddam's forces behaved in the Gulf War. According to Pentagon investigators, Iraq tortured and killed 1,082 Kuwaiti civilians and violently...
...bathrooms during the day. For instance, if someone is not immediately perceived as female in a women’s bathroom, people may scream “there’s a man in the women’s restroom.” People may call the police, or threaten and physically harm the person...
That task has been made more daunting by the insurgents' ability to intimidate, threaten and often kill Iraqis cooperating with U.S. forces. Three police stations in Basra were attacked last week by suicide bombers, killing 68 people. In Baghdad, police officers say they patrol only when they absolutely have to, and spend much of their time trying to avoid being connected to their U.S. employers. Many wear masks to hide their identities. "All the policemen are afraid," says Sergeant Walid Hani Hamid. "People think the Iraqi police are walking hand in hand with the Americans. We are forced to sneak...