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Participants called their protest a “silent rally,” saying their voices have gone unheard. Marching from University Hall to the Faculty Club, where CES was meeting, students said they had been fighting for years for more formal recognition of ethnic studies...
...Democrats are staying silent for the moment on the domestic programs Bush would cut in next year's budget. Job training, agriculture and highway construction get big slices, for example. But voters so far acknowledge, at least theoretically, that pet projects will have to suffer for war effort. For the moment, Democrats believe they can draw blood by focusing on Bush's raid of the surpluses in the Social Security and Medicare trust funds. The budget he released last week projects that $1.73 trillion will have to be diverted from the two trust funds to pay for tax cuts...
...China imports a presidential plane from America only to discover its interior is riddled with more listening devices than a Radiohead recording studio. Analysts expect trouble, but the Chinese government remains silent. What gives...
...Abazi, 50, an Albanian magazine editor who is investigating the illegal seizure of property by organized gangs from both sides. "This is not a problem of neighbor-against-neighbor," he insists. "It's criminal gangs who are operating with impunity on both sides. All the good people have gone silent." With Milosevic on trial in the Hague, now may be the time for the good people of Mitrovica to speak...
...diversity was one of the few topics regularly addressed by Rudenstine from his often silent presidential pulpit...