Critics and defenders of the use of torture view the role it played in the interrogation of alleged al-Qaida figure Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Author Mark Bowden says that new information only tends to harden positions on either side of the debate.

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China just revamped its handbook for volunteers at the Paralympics. U.S. disability rights activist Helen McCabe weighs in on the revised wording and the role of the Paralympic Games in the disability community.

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Is it possible to know the mind of China, a country with more than a billion people? Mark Leonard, executive director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, has attempted to do just that in his recent book What Does China Think?

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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says "it's hard to see" how next week's runoff presidential election in Zimbabwe will be "free and fair." In an interview with Scott Simon, Rice says the U.N. Security Council must act on the matter or risk losing its credibility.

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