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...role in the report, for example, only one of its national newspapers put the story on Page One. In Germany, the World Cup trumps just about anything. That's too bad. It could be productive to discuss publicly what is and isn't appropriate for U.S.-European cooperation. Is silent acquiescence in U.S.-directed torture the price that Europe must pay for cooperation with the war on terror? Or could Europe treat U.S. intelligence like a tapas menu - two of those, please, but none of that? How refreshing it would be for a European leader to initiate such a debate...
...DWYER AND KEVIN FLYNN To a helpless audience of millions, the Twin Towers were silent black boxes. 102 Minutes makes them speak, using the e-mails and phone calls that poured out of the buildings in the last frenzied moments on Sept. 11, 2001, to show how rescue workers, stock brokers, security guards and secretaries fought through a maze of locked doors and blocked stairways as the clock ticked down. Sometimes the tersest fragments are the most eloquent, like the record of a 911 call that reads simply, "Female caller states they are stuck in elevator. States they are dying...
Deans and professors at many graduate schools remained silent after the Faculty meeting, and they declined to speak publicly in defense of Summers...
...place like this, words fail. In the end, there can only be a dread silence-a silence which is itself a heartfelt cry to God: Why, Lord, did you remain silent? How could you tolerate all this?" POPE BENEDICT XVI, at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz during a visit to Poland, the birthplace of his predecessor John Paul...
...November, Ronald Reagan won the presidency by a landslide. That was an outcome few Harvard students had anticipated.There were only about 100 Reagan supporters on campus, Robert O. Boorstin ’81 says. And, on a predominately liberal campus, they were something of a “silent minority,” Richard L.A Weiner ’81 says. “I think there was a lot of shock through the student body when Reagan was elected president,” Weiner says. Reagan, a former actor, was “seemingly nothing more than...