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...They looked at me as if I had suggested saving money by killing all the sick babies in British hospitals," said the former analyst. "It simply was not politically acceptable to even mention increasing prescription charges. I was shocked. It takes a degree in Britishness to understand how touchy people are about the NHS." (See the most common hospital mishaps...
...Waterboarding seemed to be the term in circulation, and I think it's something that many people do not understand in terms of what it physically looks like," says Skier, the play's director and writer who sought training from someone who had gone through Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE), a U.S. program that trains troops to withstand torture...
...Rima Merhi, a fellow at the HKS Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, said after the talk that the panel did not spend enough time discussing implementation of justice and the relationship between justice and politics. “I really feel so many people don’t understand what injustice is. They live in the developed world and write to an American audience,” Merhi said. “They don’t really relate to examples where we really need answers, like in the Middle East and developing countries...
...Waterboarding seemed to be the term in circulation, and I think it's something that many people do not understand in terms of what it physically looks like," says Skier, the play's director and writer who sought training from someone who had gone through Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE), a U.S. program that trains troops to withstand torture...
...husband approaches her beliefs with support and measured skepticism. "I can understand to a degree [ the existence of UFOs]," the incoming Prime Minister has said, according to a Japanese blog. "But being told by your wife 'I've gone and returned from Venus,' still bewilders me." But he is clearly devoted and has also said in interviews how much he is invigorated by being with her (allowing her, it is said, to style his hair, which, with its pompadour-like height, defies the slicked-down look Japanese politicians are used to sporting.) (See pictures of Japan from 1989 to today...