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...That's the America I know and love. But it is not, alas, the only face of America in this war. One of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's first instructions for military interrogations outside the Geneva Conventions was that military doctors should be involved in monitoring torture. It was a fateful decision - and we learn much more about its consequences in a new book based on 35,000 pages of government documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. The book is called Oath Betrayed (to be published June 27) by medical ethicist Dr. Stephen Miles...
...across unflattering remark on friend Josh Peterson's blog about his recent "nails-on-a-chalkboard" karaoke rendition of Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy." (N.B.: Our mole was present at the performance, and confirms that the subject's tone-deaf singing was "excessively painful" and "should be forbidden by the Geneva Conventions...
...five complementary treatments, but practitioners say demand for their services has doubled or tripled since then. That's New Age music to the ears of proponents of alternative medicine such as Britain's Prince Charles. Last month, the Prince suggested in a speech to the who in Geneva that governments should support "integrated health care" combining conventional and alternative therapies. Not so, argued 13 doctors back in Britain in an open letter published on the day of the Prince's speech that attacked the use of National Health Service (nhs) resources on treatments they said were unproven. An estimated...
Although The Crimson realized that the Geneva Conference did not signal a change Soviet aims, it was generally felt that personal pledges not to begin a third—and last—world war were important gains and that a continually creative approach in diplomacy indicated by the atoms-for-peace and “open skies” disarmament plan, was after all the best one. Thus, it urged that a realistic view of Soviet aims need not prevent the development of East-West contacts: Trade with Russia in non-strategic materials and the exchange of professors...
...busy, too, you know-like with my lecture circuit you won't attend," Gore said, alphabetically ticking off some of the thousand-plus places where he had recently shown slides of melting icebergs, eroding coastlines, and flooded New Orleans streets. When he hit Geneva, Switzerland, Bush interjected...