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...cadre of police who were sent to muffle our silent expression. I am indeed puzzled by this action on behalf of the administration, partly because I am surprised that they didn't treat the parents a little more gingerly, but mostly because of the way they used intimidation to squelch the airing of our views about a living wage. The amount of police power expended to keep a few posters from being held up during a speech was outrageous. Having asked me to leave the auditorium while holding up my "Living Wage Now" sign or suffer the consequences, the officer...
Their very forthrightness may have helped squelch suggestions that a bribe was involved. Their portrayal of a White House in disarray--the Final Daze--sounded so plausible that some thought it explained why Clinton waived his Executive privilege and allowed his counselors to testify. This is what passes as the best defense--not that he was venal but that he was an idiot. "I think that people are finally tiring of it," Podesta told Time, "but as long as it's still selling cable-TV rating points, it will probably go on a little longer...
...credibility among graduate students by denying that problems existed and by promising changes that never took place; as a result, many graduate students who had been ambivalent about a union became convinced that only a union could bring about change. The Harvard administration should not plan to squelch a union, should one ever appear, but to address the real concerns of graduate students...
...tour of the Arab states, and they heaped praise on him for his steadfastness, so unlike the cold shoulder he had suffered for a decade. But when he tried to translate that into approval for the unilateral declaration of a state in September, Washington sent its diplomats ahead to squelch the idea--and Arafat was forced to shelve...
...week, it was nevertheless a fierce mess. The exhaustive, seven-year effort to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through negotiation has withstood great tests, but none as scorching as this. While regional leaders agreed to a summit this week in Egypt, their ambitions were contained by the need to squelch the bloodletting. After two weeks of violence, neither Israeli nor Palestinian leaders--nor the U.S. officials who have painstakingly nurtured their talks--held out much real hope of restoring the momentum toward peace. "Something was torn here, and it seems as if the genie left the bottle," said Israeli Justice...