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...trick is knowing when to stop. The behavior of the military police at Abu Ghraib seems to blur into hazing, sadism and mockery. Whatever the motives, says Kutz, the soldiers virtually guaranteed that the inmates would be susceptible to post-traumatic stress--and useless to interrogators. "This is stupidity. It's not useful. In fact, it's harmful," says a former Israeli military intelligence interrogator. "After a man's humiliated like this, if there was a chance he'd open up, now there's no way. If there was a chance to recruit him and send him back...
...tenant farmers after fighting the Soviets. Mohammed rejects the plan, arguing that Pakistan would turn this data over to Washington and other governments. So far, two deadlines for registration have come and gone, the latest on May 7, and no one has come forward. Americans say the scheme is useless. "We certainly don't expect to see Osama bin Laden walking in to put down his name," joked one Western diplomat in Islamabad...
...council’s Constitutional Revision Committee (CRC) presented its proposed new constitution yesterday, to update what Mahan called the “essentially useless constitution that we currently have...
...people talking to one other? How do you create a community? How do you bridge a community? How do you even define a community? Because people are moving around so much, how do we take into account new rivals and changing demographics. Some say a liberal arts education is useless, but it can actually do a lot. And [in my career,] I’ve just been trying to explore in a way some of the questions that were brought up in college and trying to answer them, or to ask further questions...
Granted, there are non-athletes who squeeze past the admissions committee with talents as obscure and useless as flower arranging or bird watching, and those freaks can definitely drag down the mean (to the benefit of others). And I suppose there are those athletes who do possess a brain, maybe even of the Phi Beta Kappa caliber...