Harper's
This week’s harper's review is
out. Some real gems including the following
It was reported that CACI International, the company that employs one of the accused Abu Ghraib torturers, also sells the Bush Administration ethics training tapes.
U.S. officials postponed the release of this year's international human-rights report because the timing was somewhat embarrassing.
The Pentagon was thinking about setting up a new office to plan postwar operations for future wars.
Alabama police were chasing a gang of cross- dressing car thieves,
A German ornithologist discovered that urban nightingales, forced to compete with noise pollution, can sing so loud they break the law. The loudest recorded was 95 decibels, which is as loud as a chainsaw.
Brooklyn police arrested a forty-three-year-old armless man for raping and beating one of his fellow nursing-home inmates.
Marijuana use was up in the United States.
Oh, and scientists announced that women with large breasts and narrow waists are especially fertile.
* Rami, 5/11/2004 02:35:51 PM