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...claiming they were extracted under extreme duress. That may not be surprising. Nor was Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman's response: that "the al-Qaeda training manual specifically encourages those captured to make false claims of abuse." But the more that becomes known about the al-Qahtani case--a unique window into the otherwise secretive practices at Guantánamo--the greater the government's vulnerability to challenges to its conduct there. Lawyers for some 60 Guantánamo prisoners told TIME they plan this week to file in a Washington federal appeals court a motion questioning the legality of their clients' detention...
Does that look like the picture you see from your dorm window? Probably not, but Wisse believes that these characteristics of the “new generation” of Harvard students prompted the student body to reject the Faculty’s recent coup and support University President Lawrence H. Summers. Unfortunately, Wisse’s simple explanation does not withstand scrutiny; not only is she out of touch with students one third her age—a day of Core classes and a night at a final club would refute both of her claims?...
...people. “Henry Geldzahler and Christopher Scott,” from 1969, shows a couple, close friends of Hockney, in a room furnished with little besides a sumptuous pink sofa. One man, Henry, sits comfortably on the couch at center, illuminated from behind by an open window with a city scene. His partner stands in profile at the painting’s right, symmetric with the unadorned lamp at left, looking anxious. Although their story is not clear from the painting, their positions and expressions imply that there is an intricate tangle of feelings involved, and one that...
...Once he saw Foy's diplomatic vehicle pass through the security barrier, the man jumped into his car and rammed it into the 4X4, detonating a bomb with a force strong enough to obliterate both vehicles, shatter every window of the 10-story hotel's western face and send nearby military jeeps flying 50 feet over concrete barriers. More than 50 people have been reported gravely injured and television footage shows clothing, limbs and debris from the blast tangled in telephone and electricity wires...
...last year to help players plan for their lives following retirement. “The mission of the departments is to promote the off-the-field development of the players,” NFLPA spokeswoman Leslie Satchell said. “[The program] allows you to see a whole window of opportunities and then find your niche within it,” said Tank Williams of the Tennessee Titans. The program kicked off last spring with HBS and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania hosting 66 NFL players. This year, the program welcomed roughly 120 players...