Word: silents
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...quietly as pro-American authoritarian Arab regimes have jailed democracy activists, as happened to former presidential candidate Ayman Nour in Egypt? The White House stresses Bush's admiration for Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz and the country's baby-step municipal elections in 2005, yet Washington is silent about the systematic repression of women and minorities permitted in the name of religion in the Kingdom. If any Arab leader today deserves to be called a democrat, it's Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, a humble economist by training who bravely continues to hoist the banner of the 2005 Cedar Revolution...
...true that, over the past few years, for those who do not speak our language, it has been the silent artists of French culture who have hit the headlines: the mime artist Marcel Marceau, Jacques Cousteau, our choreographers, our circus acts. They represent our quiet resistance to the hubbub of the world. But we would still like to impress you, modestly, in the French style; to make ourselves heard, shout a bit, throw a few tantrums. This isn't easy when, with your powerful American cultural industries, your worldwide machinery for projecting image, sound, software, desires, you have been...
...Jews to the death camps during World War II. Ethnic cleansing is a euphemism for genocide or methodical murder. Don't be fooled: the motive in Kosovo is religious hatred. The ethnic Albanians are Muslims, and the murdering Serbs are Christians. How can religious people throughout the world remain silent, knowing such an outrage is being committed? Muslims, Jews and Christians, stand up and be counted. EDWARD MORRISROE Lake Forest, Calif...
...Huckabee's, on Locust. "I don't think we've exchanged many words at all," says Huckabee's Iowa campaign manager, Eric Woolson. You might have thought the holidays would have brought some occasion for communal cheer, or at least an exchange of cookies. "You're looking for the "Silent Night" 1914 story, with the Germans and the British playing soccer?" Zambenini told me when I suggested as much. "Nope...
...resembles the eternal supporting player Elisha Cook Jr. - doesn't bother to occupy a role anymore. Instead, he plays Jack Nicholson, the breezy celebrity who sits up front at the Oscars or the Lakers. He preened all the way through The Departed; he seemed to be doing a silent running commentary on his character in About Schmidt. Maybe not since The Pledge has he hunkered down and acted...