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...begin to understand. But we stay silent. There’s not much to say, the consensus is, but “Gross!” The gender lines have been set and our roles made firmly clear. Boys may masturbate, joke about doing so, even joke in public, even joke in computer class. Girls may please hold their hands over their mouths and squeal...
...indirectly" involved. "We condemn all forms of terrorism," Zakayev told TIME shortly before the bombing. "It's a death sentence for our cause if we are associated with terrorism." The one Chechen commander who in the past has admitted ordering similar attacks, Shamil Basayev, has so far been silent. (Maskhadov claims to have broken all links with Basayev and denounces his tactics.) This did not stop loud calls by nationalist politicians for tough new antiterrorist measures, including the expulsion of Chechens from Moscow, declaration of a state of emergency and the lifting of a moratorium on the death penalty. Dmitry...
...Silent Majority 1968 Conservatives who rejected '60s radicalism but had little visibility until Richard Nixon gave them a name--and mobilized them by promising national unity and victory in Vietnam
...nights while attending military school at age 16. So instead I decided to direct for stage and enrolled as a theater major at Hofstra University on Long Island. And then one afternoon in 1956, while a freshman, all my interests came together as I watched Sergei Eisenstein's 1927 silent masterpiece October: Ten Days That Shook the World, about the Russian revolution. I knew instantly I could combine storytelling with the innovation and technology of cinema...
...thought she was spending too much money; she thought he wasn't spending enough time with her and their two children. The counseling they tried didn't help. "It just made the situation artificial," says Suzanne. She's the verbal one; Tom, from a military family, is the strong, silent type. "So when we would argue, he gets sort of blasted out of the water by me, and he shuts down and shuts me out. It escalated to the point where he was, like, 'I'm out of here...