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...night fell last Wednesday on Mohseni Square in north Tehran, a crowd of 2,000 Iranians filled nearby Mirdamad Street, ignoring the shouts of police ordering them to disperse. The frightened group assembled to hold a vigil for the victims of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. The Iranians - mostly young and middle class - held candles in the air and defiantly sang Iran's pre-revolutionary anthem as Mirdamad Street flickered in a sea of candlelight. Then, emboldened by growing numbers, they began to chant, "Marg bar terrorist (Death to terrorists...
...again, she informed them "There was an Iranian woman on one of those planes" and replaced her candle with a rose plucked from a nearby bush. An hour later, after plainclothes police infiltrated the crowd and attacked loiterers with batons, police in partial riot gear patrolled the square. The vigil, like most public assemblies in Iran, had been broken up. "They should be glad we're showing the world we care," said Davoud Shahbazi, 20, as he limped home with a knee bruised by a blow from a baton...
Last week, as the Harvard community banded together in candlelight vigils, UW had a vigil of its own, and other student-athletes cried and prayed together. Hundreds of people crowded close in the chilled autumn air, trying to make sense of their tragedy, to cope with such a vicious personal blow...
...losses and celebrated in victories. They knew the tenuous thrill of relying upon someone else to be fierce in competition and supportive in practice. They had learned, together, how unforgiving the world can be in competition and defeat. They were all members of a team, and at that vigil, in remembrance of their brethren, they were all teammates...
Participants said the vigil helped them deal with the events on a more personal level...