Word: silent
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FORT DAVIS, Texas: Negotiations with the Republic of Texas faction have broken down on the verge of a surrender agreement. Mike Cox, spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, said that Richard McLaren, the group's leader, abruptly cut off talks late Tuesday night and has been silent ever since. The group's web site, where updates on the situation and calls for reinforcements from other citizens of the Republic of Texas had been posted, was taken down Wednesday afternoon. Apparently responding to McLaren's call, seven heavily armed men carrying Republic of Texas citizenship cards were arrested Wednesday...
...arms in Henry V's "St. Crispian's Day" speech, and Scott A. Rifkin '97--earlier overeager in the Comedy of Errors scene--redeemed himself in a highly comic turn as the servant Launce from The Two Gentlemen of Verona. (Rifkin shared the spotlight very graciously with his silent partner, the dog Crab, played with impressive fidelity by Rusty, the Lowell House...
...will "underline American support for the continuation of Hong Kong's current way of life and freedoms." However, in an unusual moment, it seems Albright and the Clinton administration can learn from Speaker Newt Gingrich, who said in a speech at Beijing's Foreign Affairs College, "America cannot remain silent about the basic lack of freedoms...in China. Were we to do so, we would not only betray our own tradition, we would also fail to fulfill our obligations as a friend [to] both China and Hong Kong...
Benhabib yesterday said she is excited at the opportunity to head the interdisciplinary concentration "at a time when we are becoming increasingly more specialized and the drive is either to be cautious or silent on the larger questions facing us, in a world that is eliciting fewer and fewer thoughtful responses...
...know, I was restructured out of my long-term role as Brooks House's principal advisor on June 30, 1996. (Indeed, my classmate and former PBHA President Reverend Mort Hauser has informed me that the process by which I was dismissed was self-consciously fraudulent.) I have remained rather silent during the ensuing period hoping that something positive might be derived from my absence. Unfortunately, as the anniversary of my departure approaches, I do not understand such to have been the case...