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...crackdown was clearly meant to antagonize Khatami and question his authority--his brother is one of the editors of the closed papers. In response, Khatami exercised his seemingly endless store of self-control. He remained silent while others in his government urged university students to avoid confrontations with the authorities. This was not cowardice: Khatami and his government feared riots would give the clergy the excuse it needs to declare Khatami incapable of maintaining national stability. The delicate give and take between the clerics and Khatami's government has been sorely tried since the February election. However, Khatami has been...
...gave animal rights activists from Boston and beyond an opportunity to descend on the Square and protest the use of primates in laboratory experiments at Harvard and MIT. Caged demonstrators, armed with incendiary photos that allegedly depicted the torturous treatment of primates at the MIT labs, vowed to remain silent for 100 hours in protest of this indignity...
...beautiful goal—to seek these is all the libido we could ever need. Romance and relationships are noisy and complicated, inevitably fraught with unpleasant difficulties. But a simple, crisp, pinpoint pass from one end of the ice to the other—executed with just a single, silent look—is nothing less than two souls moving in perfect harmony...
...panel members brought their own copies of Silent Spring, Carson's 1962 expose of the harms caused by the pesticide...
Julia Brody, executive director of the Silent Spring Institute--a Cape Cod non-profit organization that studies breast cancer--gave a brief overview of Carson's book...