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torture, I think the movie was frank, but it was frank from the
perspective of the torturer, and the torturer doesn't have to chill in a
stress position for hours upon hours. To that extent it invites us to
observe and move past the waterboarding in the same way we move by
mendicants, knowing of their suffering but never really dwelling on it.
Trump Is Renaming the Defense Department the Department of War
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The president is turning back the clock to the name the agency held until
shortly after World War II.
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