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Some deployments of rhetoric are all too obvious. This year’s refusal by prominent US government officials to label the events at the Abu Ghraib prison as “torture” was terrible??yet all too predictable. The chosen alternative, “abuse,” dismisses what occurred between torturer and victim, aggressor and prey. The infamous National Security Strategy document of September 2002, which championed pre-emptive attacks, worked analogously. The text avoids mention of human rights but rather sanctions “human dignity,” which it loosely...
...true that you’re the “enfant terrible?? of the UC, as the Salient charges...
...show’s inconsistency remains the same as it ever was as well. After two solid shows, the third episode, hosted by Barrymore, was just terrible??a laughless hour-and-a-half marred by endless unfunny skits, flubbed line readings and an amount of crack-ups that crossed the line from endearing to unprofessional. But that stinker was probably an anomaly. After all, it aired the day after an anthrax scare in the building, it was the third straight show after the always obsessed-over season premiere and it didn’t have a single appearance...
...What were they thinking?” said SAA President Sandeep Kulkarni ’04. “That’s terrible??there’s no excuse for referring to people that...