Word: velvetized
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...Leader's power]." Some members of the opposition, already worried that the IRGC is writing the script current events, wonder if the Guards did not pre-plan the entire crackdown. They point out that four days before the presidential election, the Guards' weekly newspaper, Sobhe Sadeq, warned of a "Velvet Green revolution" and said the IRGC would never permit the opposition movement to come to power...
...There has been signs that the nation's honeymoon with its new leader was coming to an end. In July, a former government minister who defected to the opposition had told local media that Mr Najib is an "iron fist in a velvet glove." The mayhem on Saturday, his critics are now saying, are a harbinger of worse things to come. The brutal display of force unfolded in the middle of a Saturday afternoon in central Kuala Lumpur as protesters marched to Istana Negara palace to ask King Mizan Zainal Abidin - whose role in Malaysia today is largely ceremonial...
...This DIY attitude is an integral part of what makes wizard rock spread. It's the musical equivalent of fan fiction: fans hear about the band or see it live, and they don't want to just listen; they want to play. "There's a quote about the Velvet Underground," Paul says. "Nobody ever bought their records, but for every 10 people who saw them play, four of them started a band. It's almost like that with...
...detention is being widely condemned. In Washington, Haleh Esfandiari, who also was detained in Iran in 2007, said the regime's "paranoia regarding a so-called velvet revolution planned from the outside and assisted from the inside has gotten out of control...
...about a world leader's audience with the Pope. During his 2007 visit to Pope Benedict XVI's private library, President George W. Bush sat down across the desk from the Pontiff as if he had just landed on his own porch in Crawford, Texas: leaning back in the velvet chair, legs crossed, apparently eager to show his command of the situation...