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...expect to be here tonight,” Classics Department Chair John M. Duffy said. “This is a gathering for us to express solidarity and our condolences to Isaac’s family. He won appreciation and esteem among faculty and students...
...Dharamsala's central Tsulagkhang Temple early Sunday. As hundreds of Tibetans and their supporters streamed in, trampling over Chinese flags strewn along the way, more banners appeared: "This is the moment - now or never"; "Shall we be slave or be free?" Shouts of "Pogyalo" - Free Tibet! - rose up to express solidarity with a long-planned "Dharamsala to Lhasa" march that started on March 10, as hundreds of yellow and brown Tibetan flags fluttered in the wind. "We had hoped for this response," says Sherab Woeser, one of the coordinators of the march. "But now that the pent-up anger...
...jarring in a certain way and unconventional, it struck a cord with her because it would actually draw attention,” he said. According to Krahel, the protest was inspired by Billionaires for Bush—a national grassroots campaign that satirically supports President Bush in order to express its view of corporate interests—and derived from a similar tactic used by protesters last May in support of raising wages for security guards. Word of the protest was spread through campus e-mail lists, with a farcical flyer that asserted, “This war is needed...
...asked about the Western condemnation provoked by some of Ahmadinejad's more controversial statements, 37-year-old Nargess Rezai, a reporter for the party's publication Shoma, responds, "But if you look at the majority of the people in the world, they respect Ahmadinejad for having the courage to express those concerns. He's paved the way for a new dialogue on Israel...
...Fillon's statement epitomizes the efforts by French conservatives to "de-Sarkocize" municipal elections that offered voters their first chance to express themselves since the President's approval rating went into free fall. Even before Sunday's results, many conservative candidates had sought to disassociate their campaigns from the increasingly unpopular President. Several removed references to Sarkozy and even the name of his Union for a Popular Majority (UMP) party from their campaign posters and literature, and many declined presidential offers to stump on their behalf...