Word: use
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...picture isn’t a lack of social spaces, but rather a lack of use of existing social spaces,” said Zogran...
Especially during this season of discontent. We hate the bailouts, revile the bankers, wish Detroit would secede and take Congress with it. City folk dislike farm subsidies, farmers don't have much use for mass transit, and we all hate the taxes that pay for them. So what actually unites us? We call ourselves patriots; we defend dissent. But what happens when I don't like what Washington does? If I say, "My country, right or wrong," can I turn around and say, But when I think you're wrong, I reserve the right not to be part...
Amid all the back-and-forth recriminations over the abusive CIA interrogations, one crucial fact is being overlooked; when the use of harsh techniques like waterboarding and prolonged sleep deprivation began in 2002, the CIA simply had no idea what it was doing...
...Cheney wants more of a focus on these days - whether the abusive interrogations worked. To a degree, he said. Through the course of the interrogations of Mohammed, Abu Zubaydah and other al-Qaeda prisoners the CIA learned a lot more than it knew before about al-Qaeda communications, its use of safe houses, codes, and the way al-Qaeda looks at the world. In other words, pretty much all low-level stuff. He said there were no dramatic confessions he knew of, the kind we see virtually every week in the popular TV show 24 that prevent a catastrophic attack...
...Tuesday. The group included House Speaker Pelosi, who said, "Congresswoman Harman has many fans who advocate for her, and to juxtapose that on any other activities ... is just not correct. What is true is that everybody knows I don't respond to threats, so it wouldn't be useful to use them." Added Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Dianne Feinstein: "I know Jane Harman. I know her to be of the highest integrity. She has asked that all the materials connected with it be released, and I hope that her request is granted. I think it's very important that...