Word: refering
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...also in China, Morocco, Turkey, and elsehere, freedom of speech has been deemed far too dangerous to enshrine as an individual and inalienable right. All of these countries have blocked Internet access to various sites, including YouTube, within their borders. China frequently blocks web-surfers from visiting pages that refer to controversy over Tibet and Taiwan, and even has its own Wikipedia (search “Tiananmen Square” under China’s censored Wikipedia site and you’ll find out more than you ever wanted to know about the locale’s architecture). Restriction...
RESIGNED The man so omnipresent that Cubans often refer to him by gesture instead of name--drawing their fingers along their jawlines to indicate his iconic beard--announced that he will be stepping down after 49 years...
...modernist style both by renowned American architects, like Philip Johnson, and South American practitioners of the style. The city was once called “pedacito del cielo”—a little piece of heaven. This is not just a nickname, but also seems to refer to the unfulfilled dream of a modernist utopia. Now, slums surround many of the geometric concrete surfaces and glass curtain walls of the mid-century expansion.Alessandro Balteo Yazbeck’s exhibit at the Sert Gallery in the Carpenter Center, titled “Pedacito del Cielo...
...group thinks it's been oversold as a crime-prevention method. "There's no evidence whatsoever that it actually deters crime," says Jen Corlew, the group's media director, and adding voices to the mix won't change that. "'Gimmick' is the word we've been using to refer...
...politics will be over next year.” In his introductory speech, Kerry compared Obama as a young leader to Thomas Jefferson and Martin Luther King, Jr. “He doesn’t seek to perfect the politics of swift-boating,” Kerry said, referring to attacks on his own failed 2004 presidential bid. “He seeks to end it.” Patrick asked voters assembled to push their friends and relatives to go to the polls today. “Make it personal,” he said...