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My piece in the November issue of Harper?s, already on newsstands, takes a look at the Republican presidential race in South Carolina, focusing on the role of Mitt Romney?s handlers in the state. There?s no state where political consultants are more prominent than South Carolina. The two best-known figures currently are Richard Quinn Sr., who is running John McCain?s campaign, and Warren Tompkins, who worked for George W. Bush?s famously dirty South Carolina campaign in 2000 and who is now working for Mitt Romney. . . .
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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider God-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, wrongly believing that he has the Gods on his side. . . .
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Contributed by Scott Horton
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Last night I listened to a group of retired generals and admirals speak very movingly of their commitment to oppose the Bush Administration?s torture policies. One of them, General Fred Haynes, is a genuine American hero, who fought in three wars, starting with the beaches of Iwo Jima. ?It undermines our most fundamental values,? he said, ?it makes us less safe, not safer.? Hopefully we?ll have some reporting on their remarks in the press shortly. In the meantime, here are three more voices raised against torture. . . .
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Contributed by Sam Shaw
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The runners slog past a bivouac of plastic card tables and folding chairs, past electric-green Port-O Lets ripe with disinfectant, past indifferently groomed hedges and the redbrick facade of Thomas A. Edison Vocational and Technical High School. At the corner of 168th Street, they cut north to the Grand Central Parkway, the course rising gently as trucks and cars rocket by. The concrete apron is a blinding white line. They pass illegally parked cars, wipers festooned with tickets. Trash has blown into the grass of Joseph Austin park, named for Mario Cuomo?s childhood baseball coach. Here are silent handball and basketball courts, and a playground where sprinklers throw a flume across a midway empty of children. Alone or in twos or threes, the runners pass the hydrants and trash cans of 164th Place, moving southward to Abigail Adams Avenue and thence east a half-block under shade trees to the row of card tables, where women jot notes on clipboards, like a delegation of Green Party poll watchers. At a comfortable pace, you can walk the loop in about ten minutes. The course of the world?s longest footrace measures .5488 miles. . . .
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Contributed by Scott Horton
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Last week, a career federal prosecutor friend told me, ?Most of us have come to agree that there?s a real problem with political prosecutions on Bush?s watch, and that needs to be addressed, but you need to remind your readers that this is something truly exceptional and that the great mass of cases involve the normal functioning of the law enforcement system, with career professionals who are detached from political considerations.? For the record, I believe that?s true. I?m not sure how widespread the phenomenon of political prosecution is. I believe that it is no longer a question of ?whether? such prosecutions have been brought?that?s now very well established. How widespread is this phenomenon? That?s an important question and the answers are unclear. . . .
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