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...eve of the one-month anniversary of the onset of violence in Tibet, Tibetans from the greater Boston community and several non-Tibetan supporters gathered by the T-stop in Harvard Square for their 30th evening of vigils in memory of Tibetans who have died since the March 14th protests. Protesters held candles and chanted a Tibetan mantra wile standing in a circle around a large sign that declared, “China may kill our people but not our spirit.” Dhondup Phunkhang, one of the organizers of the daily vigils, said their purpose...
...many tales he spun out of the jarring legacy of the Spanish Civil War, Belle Epoque earned him an Oscar for Best Screenplay in 1992. The film, which marked the first major leading role of fellow Spaniard Penlope Cruz, harked back to a less complicated time, on the eve of dictator Francisco Franco's rise. With a deft ability to move between drama and levity, innocence and anguish, he is credited with inspiring anew Spaniards' passion for film in the postwar...
...Medal of Honor, President George W. Bush said at the White House on April 8, when he presented it to Monsoor's parents, is "awarded for an act of such courage that no one could rightly be expected to undertake it." The ceremony unfolded on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad and on a day of Senate hearings on the progress of the war. Half a world away, the streets of the Iraqi capital were empty under a military curfew to prevent car bombings. Down Pennsylvania Avenue, Democrats and Republicans competed over who could describe...
...unified. But this unity didn't last for long. Just instants after the Big Bang, as the explosion cooled and its contents scattered, the cosmos' forces and matter differentiated. The universe fell from a state of perfect grace into its current complexity, in a cosmic parallel to Adam and Eve...
...foes: the Chinese consulate in the city often sees protests by North Korean refugees and the Falun Gong spiritual movement. But the scale of Wednesday's events is huge: Tibetan activists hung a banner from the Golden Gate Bridge on Monday, and thousands attended a vigil on the eve of the flame's arrival. A slew of other activists are congregating around the issue, from advocates for Burmese democracy (China backs the country's junta) to nudists who want the Olympics to revert to the custom of ancient Greece and have the athletes compete naked. The San Francisco police department...