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...Terror is a war against that experience, launched, as Bush put it, because ?the most solemn duty of government, is to protect our people from harm.? Protecting at all costs against the next attack is what leads to the Patriot Act, and debates over what counts as torture, and over the proper bounds of domestic spying by the NSA, and all the other constraints on civil liberties that have people itching about the costs of this fight...
According to Gomes, bells have been a feature of Harvard’s campus throughout its history, stemming from the tradition at Oxford and Cambridge of using bells to mark time and recognize solemn occasions...
...human,” Swinton says of her arch-sinister character, the White Witch Jadis. “So it’s a free pass into all sorts of nonsense that doesn’t add up.”Blithely risking blasphemy, she describes the solemn scene where her character sacrifices anthropomorphic messiah Aslan as “a full-on rock concert of the Iron Maiden variety.”And Swinton is even less reverent when she talks about her reasons for taking the role. Mostly, she says, she was hoping to help secure funding...
...Corbin said. Reverend Chaplain Mark D. W. Edington made a similar appeal. “This is not a religious service, nor by any means a funeral it is a remembrance and a call to action,” he said. Throughout the vigil, many audience members bore solemn faces and had tears in their eyes. “It is uplifting to see so many people care so much about people so far removed from our daily lives, it shows hope for them and for us,” said Owais Siddiqui...
...pure perfect union of congenial spirits, to establish freedom of intercourse between those who like each other, to provide for the common defense against gruids, freaks, and such encumbrances, to secure the blessings of society, to ourselves and our successors, do ordain and establish THE~CLUB. I do solemnly swear or affirm that I will faithfully keep the existence of this club secret to the best of my ability and will preserve, protect, and defend its constitution and may I be hauled up before the dean if I do not remain forever true to this my solemn oath...