Word: quietness
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...chemical weapons episode of 1988 was brought up again and again fifteen years later. Interestingly, the US blamed Iran for the gas in 1988 and never condemned Iraq until months before the invasion. Such old and isolated instances were revisited to exaggerate the threat while the past few relatively quiet years in Iraq were ignored completely. In addition, links were made between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, leading to the unsubstantiated claim that Saddam Hussein was somewhat responsible for the 9/11 attacks. Anyone who spoke out against the claims of the White House was belittled and called irresponsible, unpatriotic...
...meantime, UC Representative Sean C. Robinson ’09, plans to introduce a resolution in the coming weeks to reallocate party grant money to fund other social activities.Robinson said his Quincy constituents have recently complained to him about the party fund’s “quiet disappearance.”Due to the often prohibitive costs of food and drinks, Smith said that the elimination of UC party grants made the ability to host parties an issue of socioeconomic class. For Smith’s own party, a friend helped defray the costs.“Even...
...neglect is due less to student apathy than to a dearth of readily available information about these works.Tucked away near the sunken entrance to Pusey Library lies an Alexander Calder stabile, an abstract wrought-iron construction entitled “Onion” and completed in 1965. In another quiet corner of the Yard sits Henry Moore’s harmonious 1972 sculpture “Four Piece Reclining Figure.” This statue is especially inconspicuous during the winter months, when it usually rests under a shielding tarp.Whether art in the Yard is hidden literally or figuratively...
Meanwhile, on the slopes of a hill terraced with olive groves east of Jerusalem, funeral preparations were being made by Palestinians for their martyr, Abu Dhaim, the quiet and religiously minded 25-year-old who appeared to his friends to be far more obsessed with thoughts of his upcoming marriage than with a jihadi's paradise. Meanwhile, at the tent for mourners outside Abu Dhaim's home in Jebel Mukabir, the flags of Israel's two greatest enemies, Hamas and Hizballah of Lebanon, rippled in the spring breeze. Overnight, Israeli police arrested Abu Dhaim's male relatives, a few neighbors...
Scientific cooperation sometimes even precedes more traditional diplomacy. Despite the heated tensions between the U.S. and Iran these days, the two countries' scientific communities have enjoyed an increasingly active partnership since 1999. The program operates with the quiet blessings of departments of State and Treasury, even though the latter recently declared part of the Iranian government, the Revolutionary Guards, to be a terrorist organization...