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...interrogation tactics—which have led to some of the most disgraceful incidents of torture during the war—it seems reasonable that the official did not question the story. The claims about Koran desecration did not spark any questions of legitimacy because they seem commonplace in context of the administration’s past and current treatment of detainees...
...It’s very important, very good, that we bring back someone from that tradition, a tradition with which we had somewhat lost contact and in whose context Fehrenbach’s work represents a brand new development,” he said...
...this particular sacrilege? Why, in the foul context of Abu Ghraib and subsequent (confirmed) reports of female interrogators tormenting pious detainees with sexual come-ons, should Newsweek's item have helped trigger violence? The full answer involves Pakistani politics and flagging Afghan goodwill. But the short one concerns a religious force often mismeasured in the West: Islam's extreme reverence for the Koran and fury at its defilement...
...hoping for a culture change that will improve the University (and the academy in general) for everyone,” he wrote in an e-mail. “This is a very ambitious goal and [$50 million] doesn’t sound like so much in that context...
While in the past, the concepts of molecular bonding and structure were taught by themselves in introductory chemistry courses, Liu said that they will now be taught in the context of how they affect DNA and DNA replication...