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Of
all the books that might be read to mark the tenth anniversary of 9/11, one of
the most probing is by a law professor at Yale, Paul Kahn. In Sacred
Violence, Kahn
picks out two distinctive political problems of our post-9/11 world--terrorism
and torture--and argues that they are parallel. Both activities occur outside
the realm of the law, and both "inscribe meaning on bodies through pain or the
threat of pain."