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2. On the long-entrenched techniques his group tries to change: "After 9/11, military interrogators focused on two techniques: fear and control. The Army trained their 'gators to confront and dominate prisoners. This led down the disastrous path to the Abu Ghraib scandal. At Guantánamo Bay, the early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Break a Terrorist | 12/2/2008 | See Source »

It's not my first effort at writing verse, but it was the first time I tried to write a long, narrative, epic poem. I somehow decided that doing a book of rhyming couplets would sort of drone on after a while, so I decided to interrupt it with what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Calvin Trillin | 12/1/2008 | See Source »

Unsurprisingly, publishers tried to piggyback on Playboy's winning formula. Penthouse magazine, an upstart competitor formed by Bob Guccione in 1965, closely mirrored Playboy in format, with a lascivious mix of interviews, fiction features, cartoons and narrative pieces surrounding the buxom centerfolds. But in its choice of images, Penthouse lacked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Girlie Mags | 12/1/2008 | See Source »

I spent most of Thanksgiving break glued to my computer, as an increasingly helpless Mumbai Police tried to fight a ruthless squad of militants before making way for the military. I heard gunfire and saw explosions. I saw commandos rappelling from helicopters and heard the horrific stories of survivors. Every...

Author: By Rajarshi Banerjee | Title: The Week After Mumbai | 12/1/2008 | See Source »

"I wanted to share a story that may be a true story, about an Air Force captain who narrowly escaped serious injury recently - this is from a newspaper clip that I found this morning - when he decided to try horseback riding, even though he had never had any lessons or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: James Jones Jr. | 12/1/2008 | See Source »

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