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Within seconds, the 70 Harvard students and professors gathered at Brattle Theatre went silent. Camera phones clicked and the auditorium filled with whispers of, “Oh my God, it’s Andy!” Actor-turned-director Andy Garcia took the stage yesterday afternoon for a special screening of his 2005 directorial debut, “The Lost City.” The screening was part of a Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations tribute to Garcia for his humanitarian work. Garcia has worked on behalf of hurricane victims, at-risk youth, and cancer patients...
Twelve audience members staged a silent walkout yesterday afternoon in the Agassiz Theatre to protest a conservative icon who has, in the past, downplayed the importance of domestic abuse...
...small monasteries that line both sides of the road are mostly locked and empty, while wooden barricades and bales of rusted barbed wire that police used to seal off Shwedagon are stacked on the pavement. Police and soldiers armed with automatic weapons sit on stools outside the mostly silent monasteries. More are stationed at the entrance of the hilltop temple, the spiritual center of Burmese Buddhism. As many as a thousand monks lived and studied at these small monasteries in the shadow of Shwedagon. But troops now far outnumber the handful of monks that are still seen at Shwedagon...
...protesters with canes. The monks and students fight back, and soon there is the unmistakable crackle of live ammunition - the soldiers are shooting above our heads. The monks dress their wounds and begin their march downtown. Trucks full of soldiers pursue them, watched from the pavement by eerily silent crowds. Near Sule Pagoda, trucks are jeered and pelted with rocks, and the soldiers again open fire over the protesters' heads. But as dusk approaches, the crowds disperse. The shops have been shuttered all afternoon, and the pavement teashops for which Rangoon is famous vanish. Nobody wants...
...silent protest was HDAG’s first major event for the year. The group, which is the Harvard chapter of the national organization Students Taking Action Now: Darfur (STAND), was founded in 2003, the same year the conflict in Darfur erupted. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...