1. We‘ll just not let you sleep.‘ And if, back in her cell, after a night spent in interrogation, she closed her eyes during the day, the jailer broke in and shouted: ‘Open your eyes or I‘ll haul you off that cot by the legs and tie you to the wall standing up." Elsewhere, Solzhenitsyn writes: "Sleeplessness . . . befogs the reason, undermines the will, and the human being ceases to be himself, to be his own ‘I.‘ " Finally, the president might review the memoirs of former Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin, who describes experiencing sleep deprivation in a Soviet prison in the 1'40s: "In the head of the interrogated prisoner a haze begins to form.