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If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice.
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
Lamar Alexander, Politician (1940) |
Gloria Allred, Lawyer (1941) |
Andrea Barber, Actress (1976) |
Dave Barry, Journalist (1947) |
Elizabeth Edwards, Lawyer (1949) |
Tracey Emin, Artist (1963) |
Ernst Fischer, Writer (1899) |
M. F. K. Fisher, Writer (1908) |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Writer (1860) |
Kevin Hart, Actor (1980) |
Jim Backus, Actor (1989) |
James Daly, Actor (1978) |
Bert Hardy, Photographer (1995) |
Joel Chandler Harris, Journalist (1908) |