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...barely. At Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson one night last month, several large telescopes tracked the approaching comet, projecting images that flickered across television monitors. But like countless amateur stargazers around the world, the astronomers wanted to see the cosmic celebrity with their own eyes. Huddled in the chill mountain air outside an observatory dome, necks craned, binoculars raised, they and a group of visitors searched a patch...
Five days later, the matter was addressed in another announcement, and this one sent a chill through the opposition ranks. At a Sunday press conference, Laurel declared that he would pursue the presidency. He added that he was calling off a single-ticket deal struck earlier with Aquino because she had backed away from an agreement to run under the banner of Laurel's party, the United Nationalist Democratic Organization (UNIDO). "I can sacrifice myself. I can sacrifice the presidency," he said. "But I cannot sacrifice my party, my principles and the people who have worked so hard all these...
...withdraw my references to the 'severe' nature of the reprimand, and my implication that the Ad Board may be seeking to chill legitimate dissent as well as curtail improper conduct," he said in a letter printed last week...
...Inquisitorial methods of fact-finding should not be used to chill legitimate protest," the letter read. "The Ad Board has no right to force us to be our own prosecutors." Charges were never brought against any of the petitioners...
Some students feel that the notice was a threat to step up punishment with any further protest. "The notice was clearly an attempt to chill free speech," Hagerman says...