Need either writer have so encumbered us with the detail of their wives' bodily failures?As to intent, Mr Kondracke's Milly was "a master of her universe", "a dynamo" who got him into Alcoholics Anonymous and off drink.
Since adaptation involves the careful tuning of functions at every level, from molecule to cell to tissue to organ to overall bodily integration, the failure of adaptation necessarily will take place at all of these levels as well.
The August opinion defined torture as pain "equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function or even death".
They argued that the president's inherent wartime authority effectively legalized torture short of that which would cause massive organ failure, impairment of bodily function or death.
It also narrowed the definition of torture to acts equivalent to "serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death".
Last year, a Hong Kong woman, Law Wan-tung, who abused Erwiana Sulistyaningsih, then 21, from Indonesia, was sentenced to six years in jail after her conviction for assault, grievous bodily harm, criminal intimidation, and failure to pay wages and give rest days.
"In autism there may be a failure to match bodily movements to emotions, but it is only a small part of the picture, and it is also something that can occur for all sorts of reasons other than autism.
The memo concluded that torture amounts to more than inflicting moderate or fleeting pain, and "must be equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death".
