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...Lowdown:As Alexander points out, much has already been written of the abuses inflicted by the U.S. military upon prisoners under its care. His goal, instead, is to show that it's possible to get results without smashing some guy against the wall or pouring water down his throat. (As Alexander also points out, many in the military did not agree - and still don't.) Originally slated for release months ago, How to Break a Terrorist was held up by a Defense Department review, in which many passages were literally blacked out. Alexander had to sue in order...
...Game, revenge may play a big role in this season’s outcome.“The Yale kids have had to live with that loss for a year,” Murphy said. “They’ve had it shoved down their throat since the day after the game, for 12 months by the media, by the alumni, by the coaching staff. I know one thing. This may be as hungry a Yale team as we’ve ever seen, so we’d better be hungrier.”The Crimson players...
...Year-Old Virgin, able to wait a century till he finds his soulmate, his conscience a constant chaperone that keeps things from getting out of hand. As my colleague Lev Grossman put it, "It's never quite clear whether Edward wants to sleep with Bella or rip her throat out or both, but he wants something, and he wants it bad, and you feel it all the more because he never gets it. That's the power of the Twilight books: they're squeaky, geeky clean on the surface, but right below it, they are absolutely, deliciously filthy...
...brother, Malik, tied a bull to a tree, then hobbled it and asked me to hold the beast's head to the ground as he drew a machete across its jugular. "Hold this guy down now," said Malik, 50, eyeing the animal's horns as blood poured from its throat. "He could kill me." After five minutes, the blood flow began to slow, and the fight went out of the animal, which stopped kicking and lay still, breathing heavily. "O.K., it's over," said Malik. "Fine animal...
...would graduate from Harvard Medical School and become known for writing best-selling science fiction novels on topics ranging from dinosaurs recreated from DNA to extraterrestrial spherical artifacts, eventually emerging as a strident popular critic of the science behind global warming. Crichton died unexpectedly after a private battle against throat cancer in Los Angeles on Tuesday. He was 66.Esherick, who had not seen Crichton for a decade, said he heard the news on the radio yesterday morning and that he had been unaware of Crichton’s illness.Esherick, who is now a professor of Chinese studies at the University...