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107757Please Mr. Dithers, don't you know that professional expertise or direct expBill-8/26/2005
107756<i>Brainwashing can be very useful and effective</i> Yep. Our schoThe Philosopher-8/26/2005
107755Believe anything you like. We'll just have to disagree on this. (you reaepicure-8/26/2005
107754I went through basic training in the 1950s and would vigorously dispute your chaJ. C. Dithers-8/26/2005
107753That reminds me of this piece which came out a couple of years ago. QuestionableBill-8/26/2005
107752<I>I know from the PMs I get that far more people read Feelies</i> Bill-8/26/2005
107751<i>It is impossible to imagine the U.S. watching Europe be taken over by HJ. C. Dithers-8/26/2005
107750I believe communities and liberal areas such as San Francisco and Berkeley brainBill-8/26/2005
107749"We tried a kinder and gentler boot camp experience by the way which was scepicure-8/26/2005
107748Obviously you and I have very different ideas of what brain washing is so we'Oral Roberts-8/26/2005
107747Brainwashing can be very useful and effective. In some cases it is the best metepicure-8/26/2005
107746<i>And we will never know how Casey Sheehan's opinion of whether it waAlan Smithee-8/26/2005
107745It is about training to operate as a group but it's not brain washing. Do yOral Roberts-8/26/2005
107744<i>It is impossible to imagine the U.S. watching Europe be taken over by HThe Philosopher-8/26/2005
107743That's the whole point of boot camp- to make young men more fearless in the epicure-8/26/2005
107742I really find it offensive that you keep claiming that recruits are brainwashed.Oral Roberts-8/26/2005
107741I totally agree with what you are saying, Ionesco. That is why I objected to theGrainne-8/26/2005
107740Very good column! The right wingers will not like it, though: This Deja-Vu-All-Grainne-8/26/2005
107739It seems to me that bookmarks would die with one's demise from SI, although Grainne-8/26/2005
107738There is no question in my mind that at least 140 of those bookmarks are from maBill-8/26/2005
107737It's ok for a mother to be furious about the death of a son even if the son epicure-8/26/2005
107736Coug I didn't attack you. That post is hilarious. Some clown on the democrOral Roberts-8/26/2005
107735There is nothing anyone can do for Casey, is there? He doesn't have the privGrainne-8/26/2005
107734I have no idea what a "yellow elephany" is, Coug, but I think you are Grainne-8/26/2005
107733It is impossible to imagine the U.S. watching Europe be taken over by Hitler witGrainne-8/26/2005
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