The Bush administration strenuously defended so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" like sleep deprivation to obtain information from detainees, and admitted to harsher treatment, like the simulated drowning technique called water boarding, that was used in the immediate aftermath of the September 11 terror attacks.

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Shortly after I came here to Yale, and I started realizing that people thought I was a harder grader than most other Yale professors, I called the administration and asked, ?" "Do you have this sort of information?"

我刚来耶鲁没几天，就发现人们认为,我在评分上比大部分其他耶鲁教授更严格，我打电话问管理处，“你们是不是有这方面的信息“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Shortly after I came here to Yale, and I started realizing that people thought I was a harder grader than most other Yale professors, I called the administration and asked, ?" "Do you have this sort of information?"

我刚来耶鲁没几天，就发现人们认为,我在评分上比大部分其他耶鲁教授更严格，我打电话问管理处，“你们是不是有这方面的信息“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选