On the afternoon of May 6 2004, Army Major Genera Antonio M. Taguba was summone to meet, for the first time, wit Secretary of Defense Donal Rumsfeld in his Pentago conference room. Rumsfeld and hi senior staff were to testify the nex day, in televised hearings before th Senate and the House Arme Services Committees, about abuse at Abu Ghraib prison, in Iraq. Th previous week, revelations abou Abu Ghraib, including photograph showing prisoners stripped, abused and sexually humiliated, ha appeared on CBS and in The New Yorker. In response, Administration officials had insisted that only a few low-ranking soldiers were involved and that America did not torture prisoners. They emphasized that the Army itself had uncovered the scandal.
sy hirsh from this weeks newyorker
June 13, 2007 -- TOM Wolfe described himself as "surprised" and "curious" yesterday when he learned Gus Van Sant
will direct a movie version of his classic 1967 book, "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," which chronicled a cross-country bus trip by Ken Kesey (who wrote "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"), Neal Cassady (who inspired Jack Kerouac's "On the Road") and other LSD-fueled Merry Pranksters. Wolfe told Page Six he sold the option for the book in the early '70s for just $75,000. "I'm really interested to see what they do," he said. "The biggest problem will be the LSD trips that can be done so much better in print than on film."
Marlow and Sons in Williamsburg is fantastic rite now.....well worth the trip!!......and you can DRINK WELL!!
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Lieberman Lying about Iraq on Face The Nation"
Supposedly
Time Warner Cable (RoadRunner) starts traffic shaping (at some times of day, in some markets, etc....) This is their response to the issue of a very small percentage of users who constantly utilize all their bandwidth (so, almost always BitTorrent clients or Newsgroup readers.) Those users (for those applications) will see their bandwidth being throttled. Attempts to get around this (by, say, running your BitTorrent client on a non-standard port, or encrypting the traffic) will be seen as a violation of the TOS.
some great tennis at the mens french open finals right now. #1 federer has split the first two sets with two time defending french open winner #2 nadal. if federer wins he will have won the last four grand slams.