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...show, which seeks to explore the history of drowning torture, will encourage interaction with the audience and employ animation to demonstrate more dangerous forms of waterboarding ("We're not going to do those on stage because we don't want to die," Skier notes). To explore "the eerily whimsical linguistic connotations" of the term "waterboarding," Mazen and Skier will also "play on slip’n’slides and toss beach balls while singing about 'enhanced interrogation techniques,'" according to the event's Facebook page...
...head of corporate communications for health-insurance giant Cigna, Potter turned against his old colleagues in June to testify before a congressional committee about what he viewed as the health-insurance industry's "duplicitous" behavior in the current health-reform debate. In his testimony, Potter outlined specific techniques insurers employ to "dump the sick" and protect stock price at all costs. His testimony was logical, specific and convincing, but that's only part of what makes Wendell Potter a perfect turncoat in the eyes of the pro-reform movement. (Watch an interview with Potter on CNNMoney...
Some analysts argue Magna is making a big mistake if it acquires Ruesselsheim-based Opel and its European subsidiaries, which employ 50,000 workers, most of them in Germany. "A third of the parts companies out there are in trouble right now," says Toronto analyst Dennis DesRosiers of DesRosiers Automotive Consultants. "This is an unprecedented opportunity for Magna to build its core business...
...prosperous farmer in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, Singh has built a tiny empire - a microcosm of the Indian economy - around him. He owns 144 acres of vegetable plots and paddy fields and last year earned almost Rs. 2.2 million (about $45,833). That's enough to employ more than 1,500 people and for him to live well, spending about $625 a month buying clothes, food and comforts for his family of nine in the village of Salarpur, less than six miles from New Delhi in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh...
...writ of habeas corpus if so moved. In other words, the lower federal courts had no power to hear another word from Davis. But he could make his pitch directly to the Supreme Court. Prisoners have been trying for nearly 50 years without success to get the Justices to employ this "original jurisdiction." Davis succeeded. (Read "Stay of Execution for Georgia...