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...largest Jewish human rights organization, decided that enough is enough. Citing "the rapidly expanding presence of organized hate groups on the Internet," Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the center's associate dean, sent letters to hundreds of Internet access providers, asking them to help draft a code of ethics that would squelch Websites that promote bigotry and violence...
...first published volume, Death of a Naturalist (1966), onward, he has produced intense, lyrical works that seem suspended between contradictions--life and death, joy and grief, memory and loss. His imagery is radical, in the true, etymological sense of that word: "The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap/ Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge/ Through living roots awaken in my head...
...erroneously) informed that a convicted rapist was reportedly bound for Harvard to visit a student enrolled in the secondary school program. The Harvard Police went so far as to stake out the room of the student involved, but proctors were forbidden to discuss the problem with students, even to squelch the resulting rumors...
Jewett delayed his decision for weeks in orderto squelch protest, Feldman said. "It's not anaccident that he has made this decision the lastfew weeks of school...
...Pentagon is worried that U.S. troops will land in the middle of a reciprocal bloodbath that they would have to risk their own lives to stop -- or face opprobrium for not stopping. The U.S. hopes to blanket Haiti with enough heavily armed soldiers landing at enough different spots to squelch any disturbances quickly...