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...behind such policies may also be increasingly necessary. In a 2006 study, sixty-two percent of Division I student-athletes reported viewing themselves more as athletes than students, despite the NCAA’s official stance that “[i]ntercollegiate athletics programs shall be maintained as a vital component of the educational program,” not the other way around...
...drew on ultimately go back to an article written for the Air Force about Chinese torture techniques during the Korean War, entitled "Communist Attempts to Elicit False Confessions from Air Force Prisoners of War." As the title indicates, the Chinese intent was to produce false confessions, not obtain vital intelligence...
...Bill Clinton took care to point out, it's the good guys who have been winning lately in Russia, the Middle East and other areas far more vital to American interests than Haiti. Nonetheless, the Haitian's anguished question had a point. Some extremely bad guys in his poverty-stricken Caribbean nation had just won a round in a showdown with the world's lone superpower. Not necessarily the decisive round; at week's end Haiti's military leaders were backing off a bit from their early defiance. But if the showdown goes the wrong way, other bad guys around...
...Like many of his allies, Cheney insists that methods like waterboarding or sleep deprivation are an essential tool needed to pry vital intelligence from terrorists who otherwise refused to cooperate with their captors. Last month he said "the enhanced interrogation program" stopped "a great many" 9/11-like attacks. "I've seen a report that was written, based upon the intelligence that we collected then, that itemizes the specific attacks that were stopped by virtue of what we learned through those programs," Cheney said to CNN, adding that its contents are "still classified" and can't be detailed. (See pictures of life...
...recent editorial in the newspaper Thai Rath. "We all know that a party is not complete without drinks." This perhaps explains the ban's lukewarm reception from British-educated Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva's government. The Tourism Minister claimed it would drive away foreign visitors and further damage a vital industry already reeling from global recession and the shutdown of Bangkok's two airports by antigovernment protesters last year...