Word: freed
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Many of the workers, farmers and intellectuals who were freed late last week seemed stunned by their sudden good fortune. Cautious in commenting about prison conditions, they did not claim to have been maltreated by the authorities. Neither Walesa nor any other top leaders of the banned Solidarity union were among those released. In fact, there were reports that some Solidarity advisers, including Historian Adam Michnik, had been moved to Rakowiecka Prison in Warsaw and would be tried for antistate activities. Said a former Communist Party member: "It is possible that the authorities plan to release all but the most...
...mild ex-Unitarian clairvoyant dead 100 years, Emerson is still capable of stirring surprising hostility. In a baccalaureate address to his senior class last year, Yale University President A. Bartlett Giamatti blamed Emerson for the ugliest tendency of the American character - "a worship of power." Emerson, he said, "freed our politics and our politicians from any sense of restraint by extolling self-generated, unaffiliated power as the best foot to place in the small of the back of the man in front of you." This is Emerson as the imperialist Rotarian. It is Emerson as Uncle Sam in a Nietzsche...
...play is performed without an intermission, which translates to almost two hours on the Fogg's hard folding chaos. However, The Frogs moves so quickly, offering such an unpretentious rendering of classical drama that it ends leaving--the audience almost disappointed to leave, but at least momentarily freed from...
India was freed in 1947, after a long struggle led by Mahatma Gandhi. Subsequently, the Union Jack came down in 41 other colonies, protectorates and assorted territories around the world, from Africa and Asia to the Pacific islands and the Americas. Today Britain is part of the 46-nation Commonwealth, a loose political and trade association composed of its old possessions, now completely independent. Britain still claims only a clutch of 13 tiny dependencies, including the Falkland Islands, the British Virgins, Anguilla, St. Helena, Bermuda, Pitcairn Island and the uninhabited British Antarctic Territory. Britain's two most important holdings...
...government appears to have made gains in its internal war against the Mujahedin. This success has freed many units of the Revolutionary Guards, a civilian militia used to combat domestic opponents in the chaotic period following the revolution, to serve in the battle against Iraq. Fewer officials are being purged these days for political reasons, though Revolutionary Guards last week arrested former Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, who has long been at odds with the ruling Islamic fundamentalists...