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...event - The President: No, I understand that. I think that - I went to Ground Zero with the Republican nominee to mourn and to remember. And I think that there's no contradiction whatsoever in affirming the bonds that we have as a people as a way of recalling the sacrifices that were made that day and that continue to be made by members of our armed forces who are fighting in Afghanistan, and the military families that Michelle is working with...
...accomplishments. For Senator Ted Kennedy, who died on Aug. 25 at age 77, there is no shortage in that regard. He boasts the most productive Senate career in memory, a public life that shaped five decades of national politics, and a loving family who will now draw together to mourn their loving patriarch...
...Keep moving, don't stop," shouted the Basij, many mounted on red motorcycles, as they pressed the crowds, which numbered in the hundreds, possibly thousands, many openly wearing the rebel green in support of Ahmadinejad's closest rival in the election, Mir-Hossein Mousavi. Others, however, wore black to mourn another four years under Ahmadinejad. Many yelled, "Death to the dictators." Because the area around the pyramidal parliament building was so tightly cordoned off, many protesters moved to the nearby Grand Bazaar, where they chanted "Allahu Akbar...
...Although it is not yet clear who shot Neda (a soldier? a pro-government militant? an accidental misfiring?), her death may have changed everything. The cycles of mourning in Shi'ite Islam actually provide a schedule for political combat - a way to generate or revive momentum. Shi'ite Muslims mourn their dead on the third, seventh and 40th days after a death, and these commemorations are a pivotal part of Iran's rich history. During the revolution, the pattern of confrontations between the Shah's security forces and the revolutionaries often played out in 40-day cycles. (See pictures...
...that strikes me is how quiet it is. Nothing above a murmur. No one moves. The Falun Gong's silent protest in Beijing in 2005 has nothing on us. Today's theme, captured in hundreds of handmade signs, is sookoot e sabz, or "green silence." We are here to mourn the fallen, those several who have died in the past few days at the hands of the reprehensible basij, the volunteer paramilitary gangs who back Ahmadinejad. The chants that played such a prominent role prior to the elections and which peep out here and there are contained by the "shuushes...