Word: silent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sticks off to a buddy sitting on a bench just behind their makeshift stage. Four young men take turns playing the cans, until a cop on horseback approaches. The policeman makes a signal with his hand that looks like he's cutting his throat. The drummers are suddenly silent, focusing their attention on the cop's approach...
Every night, scores of Harvard students look up from their unmarked and neglected Ec 10 source-books into the deceptively silent darkness, wondering what the rest of the world is up to. Gazing into neighboring windows, we wonder what could be going on behind the closed curtains. The quiet world of Harvard's "watchers in the night" is a lot more widespread than one might guess...
...police. Two officers chased the boys down as they were heading toward their getaway van. They offered only slight resistance, and the police easily disarmed them of nine guns (another gun was found on the ground). Said Officer Terry McNatt, "They didn't say anything." They stayed silent for the entire drive to the Craighead County sheriff's office...
...next day, Drew remained silent throughout the preliminary hearing, even as he listened to the recitation of his and Mitchell's alleged crimes: five counts of capital murder, 10 counts of first-degree battery. Mitch wept and appeared remorseful. But a single night of jail found the boys outwardly changed. Upon waking, Mitchell requested a Bible, a minister and "some Scripture thought," according to Sheriff Dale Haas. Both boys asked for pizza for lunch. The request was denied, and Drew began to cry in his holding cell, begging for his mother. Said the sheriff: "He wants his Mama...
...would hope that they are trying to be morerepresentative. I think they really want to hearwhat underrepresented groups say," Campos says."It's our responsibility to send people who arevocal in addressing our issues instead of sendingpeople who will stay silent, as part of a diversefacade."CrimsonJessica F. GreenbellFINDING A BALANCE: Student leadersdiscuss student group segregation in a recentpanel sponsored by the Asian AmericanAssociation...