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...notion that the crimes committed at Abu Ghraib were solely the work of a few low ranking ?rotten apples.? In his interviews with them they largely come off as young, ill-educated, and very suggestible - almost as premoral as children - and he is not without a certain human sympathy for them. Their unseen higher-ups wanted intelligence (particularly about Saddam?s whereabouts) and did nothing to discourage any behavior that would degrade and terrify their prisoners into supplying that information. That most of them had no connection with Iraq?s dark side was either not clear...
...about the journey's end. Death will never be pretty--its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting. And yet while sorrow is certain, fear is not. "She had a very good death," a friend says of her mother, and I have an idea of what she means and don't hear it as a shrug of denial or contradiction...
...university library system should certainly instill a reverence for books in students, and Harvard College Libraries has done that job well. Undergraduates have been conditioned to the point that they would likely have an easier time robbing a bank than highlighting a library book. But libraries at certain colleges around the country have been recently allowing students to bring food among the books, much to the approbation of hungry students, and this more lax policy has not resulted in utter chaos amid the stacks. Harvard should also allow students to eat food in certain areas of Harvard libraries...
While the libraries are important repositories of knowledge, they also function as the prime study space for students, and they can easily accommodate both needs by allowing food in certain areas. That is, students can have their library and eat there...
Students pursuing simultaneous enrollment must also receive certain accommodations, such as hour-to-hour personal instruction from the professor or the ability to view lectures by video...