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...months starting in December 2002, Army Sergeant Erik Saar served as an Arabic translator and a military intelligence specialist at the detention facility for suspected terrorists that the U.S. operates at its naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. He recounts his experiences in a new book, Inside the Wire, co-written by TIME correspondent Viveca Novak. In the following excerpt, Saar, now retired from the Army, deals with the issue of suicide attempts among the detainees and the military's use of the Initial Reaction Force (IRF). An IRF team, Saar explains, is a five-person unit responsible...
...slum called Pig Sty. The latter are revealed to be not quite as helpless as they seem—an unusual number of them turn out to be Kung Fu masters—and wild fight scenes break out, with more than a little help from computer graphics and wire suspension. Sing, whose delivery is more Bill Murray than Jet Li, is caught in the middle—should he suck up to the bad guys, who he thinks will probably win, or fight for a nobler cause at the risk of getting his arse handed...
Neighborhood resident Nancy Lamb, owner of Ben, a Golden Retriever, and Axil, a Wire-Haired Dachshund, called the path the “soul of the neighborhood.” She estimated that about 12 dogs convene near the path on a good...
...decorated in Ming and Qing Dynasty motifs. But it was an Australia Council?funded trip back to China the following year that equipped him for stardom. There, in a workshop outside Beijing, he became skilled in the 700-year-old techniques of cloisonn?, a painstaking process of copper-wire enameling which he applied to full body-casting. Human human?lotus, cloisonn? figure I, 2000-01, took out Australia's inaugural National Sculpture Prize. With a solo show at New York's Asia Society in 2002, Ah Xian's commercial cachet soared, with prices for his sculptures tripling overnight...
...game that may well turn out to be a microcosm of the Crimson’s season, the first game of the Saturday double-header with Princeton featured inspired play and went right down to the wire...