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...over whether new Pentagon procedures for handling captured terrorists should adopt the Geneva Conventions' ban on cruel and degrading treatment. A senior Administration source says National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and top military officers favor including the Geneva standards, while Cheney has managed to round up only a few senior Pentagon civilians, such as Under Secretary of Defense Stephen Cambone, to back his opposition to them. Adding to the pressure is the growing international controversy over what amounts to a clandestine CIA prison system. The Washington Post reported last week that the agency at different...
Although the play’s primary emotions are choleric, it has unexpected moments of levity. For instance, in one of the most unusual vignettes, a young country girl (Juliette C. McClendon ’09) who has inexplicably laid a very real, white, round egg (possibly representative of future generations of African-Americans) talks wistfully of how beautiful and strong her “children” will be. The effect is oddly sweet, mostly because of McClendon’s conviction, and lends a tone of reconciliation to “The Colored Museum” that softens...
...times you think you're built for it, and you're really not. The way to know? Put up your money. Not just a dollar; put up some real money. There's usually $10,000 per person riding each round when we play. Nine times out of 10, people give up--and they do that in life too. You got to call it, believe it and be ready to put your money...
...simply playing against the house. Later, the game was changed to a tournament in which the subjects were divided into teams of two men or two women each. Winning teams got $2 per computation; losers got nothing. Men and women performed equally in both tests, but on the third round, when asked to choose which of the two ways they wanted to play, only 35% of the women opted for the tournament format...
...come-from-behind victory over Aurelija Miseviciute and Ela Kaluder of Arkansas in their opening match on Thursday, O’Riain and Anderson built a 5-1 lead over the duo from Chapel Hill, which had bounced the tournament’s no. 2 seed in the opening round. “We were playing really well...I kind of assumed that we were going to win,” O’Riain said. “Before we knew it, it was five all, six all, and then we got nervous.” Long and Anundsen...