Dating from 1983 to 2001, they include simplified but recognizable portraits of Miles Davis and Louis Armstrong, as well as a number of renditions of curvy, knob-headed female beauties and a stout tree whose branches have morphed into gold heads of lively snakes.
Since September 11th, as the number of renditions has grown, and hundreds of terrorist suspects have been deposited indefinitely in places like Guantánamo Bay, the shortcomings of this approach have become manifest.
For the simulations in Figure 6, the number of renditions, N, was 200.
The airport has also been used by the CIA in a number of "extraordinary renditions", the extrajudicial transfer – or kidnapping, essentially – of "enemy combatants", before they're taken over to Guantanamo Bay and all the horrors that await them there.
(C ) Distribution of target syllable frequency as a function of number of syllable renditions (black dots, 10 ms window measured from target onset; red line is running average of syllable frequency).
Nick Mercer, a former lieutenant colonel responsible for giving legal advice to the army, wrote to Wall, advising that he had been made aware of a number of allegations of rendition.
Mr. Kappes in recent years has come under fire from human rights groups, which have pushed for a better understanding of his role in the Bush administration's detention and interrogation program for terrorism suspects, as well as a number of high-profile "rendition" cases in which the C.I.A. took suspects to third countries for brutal interrogations.
The flight logs were obtained by Stephen Grey, a British journalist who has written a number of stories on renditions for British publications, including the London Sunday Times.
The Guardian has repeatedly put a number of questions about the renditions to Straw, asking whether he authorised the operations and, if not, which minister was responsible; the former foreign secretary has repeatedly declined to answer.
Several phrases make up a number of verses to complete a musical rendition.
