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Torture American Style. The debate comes down to words versus deeds by David Luban in the Washington Post
Gallup: Americans Against Torture, But Believe We Do It at Editor&Publisher
‘Doonesbury’ Strip Showing Bush Defending Frat Torture at Yale is ‘Fact-Based,’ Says Garry Trudeau by Dave Astor at Editor&Publisher
More in U.S. Expressing Doubts About Death Penalty by Peter Slevin in the Washington Post — this article has some interesting statistics: of 999 executions since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, 355 were in Texas, 2 in Kentucky.
Drugmakers Win Exemption in House Budget-Cutting Bill by Jonathan Weisman in the Washington Post
Cull of the Wild, op-ed by Scott Weidensahl in the NYTimes: “The virulent form of the flu has not yet been found in the Western Hemisphere, but some Americans are still panicking.”
Zeroing Out the Messenger. Idaho Senator Eliminates Funds for Center on Salmon Survival by Blaine Hardin in the Washington Post
The Truth is a Dangerous Thing at I See Invisible People: “All 1,800 copies of a student-run newspaper in Oak Ridge, TN has been confiscated because the issue contained information on birth control methods and their effectiveness rates”
The NYTimes’s list of 100 Notable Books of the Year, skimming through I saw 4 poets, all men – Oh, and Camille Paglia’s Break, Blow, Burn (Pantheon, 2005).
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from the BBC News: Curtain rises on ‘virtual’ Dylan. That’s Dylan Thomas, by the way.
A 3D film version of Thomas, recreated from his death mask, old photographs and voice recordings will read Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.
No moving film footage of the poet, who died in New York in 1953, is believed to have survived.
Photographer Bernard Mitchell and Swansea animation firm iCreate are behind the project
You can link through to a brief video clip from the news article. Thanks to Charlie Hughes for the link.
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