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...Listen to Afroman's classic stoner jam "Because I got High" and think how much you'd love to use that excuse tomorrow in section. Yea, we know the song is old, but believe us, it's still an epic stoner anthem. "I coulda cheated, and I coulda passed, but I got high...
...here.” Eve R. Meyer ’09 emphasized that the intention of TFA is to supplement, not replace, current teachers. “We certainly would never want to displace a 30-year veteran teacher, but clearly Boston is an area they thought could use more teachers,” she said. “You’d think that everyone would be happy that there are people who want to teach and help students learn.” Stutman also raised the concern that the short-term TFA recruits will be displacing union members...
...harsh interrogation methods against accusations of torture by portraying them as a measured intelligence gathering tool that wouldn't be allowed to get out of hand. But with the release of the Justice Department interrogation memos ordered by President Obama last week, it has become clear that the use of waterboarding seemed to occasionally get out of control...
Those numbers certainly appear to go against the tenor of what the agency had told the OLC when it sought a legal opinion on the use of waterboarding. An Aug 1, 2002, memo by Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee says the CIA had "indicated that these acts will not be used with substantial repetition, so that there is no possibility that severe physical pain could arise from such repetition. Accordingly, we conclude that these acts neither separately nor as part of a course of conduct would inflict severe physical pain or suffering with the meaning of the statute." (Read "Bush...
...insurance brokers say that ships are protecting themselves as best they can: many vessels are encased in barbed wire and crews often use high-powered water hoses to try to ward off oncoming pirates. Kidnap experts say the pirates are increasingly skilled at seizures; they say they were astonished last November when the Saudi supertanker Sirius Star was seized, since its side had been regarded as too high for pirates to scale. The pirates finally released the ship and its crew two months later, after a security company dropped $3 million in cash over the Indian Ocean. "Even with...