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The Waterboarding Olympics: Up Close and Personal
 
Mullah Hasan was a legend to us. His creativity and dramatic abilities were almost as astounding as his pulmonary capacity. Once he was waterboarded for forty days and forty nights, while he regaled the event's sponsors with tale after tale, each more inventive than the preceding one.
 
Eric Thurschwell