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...stifle the resistance, public demonstrations have become more decentralized and frequent as protesters become increasingly bold and defiant. This shift in mood - from despondency in late June after the Basij fired on protesters following the June 12 presidential election, to a renewed sense of optimism - signals that the vocal opposition movement will not be going away anytime soon. "It's the national duty of every single man and woman to go to the streets," said a university student protester in her mid-20s. "This is far from over...
...about Obama's birth and has likened them to the brownshirts of Nazi Germany. If her allegations were correct, Obama would be ineligible to serve as President. But her evidence is scant, and Taitz may have to just settle for being the peroxided grand poobah of a small - but vocal - fringe. (See the top 10 Obama gaffes...
...people and was more of a nuisance than an actual threat - members gave speeches and harassed weight-loss groups but never resorted to actual violence. By the early 1980s, Fat Underground fizzled out, while NAAFA - by then renamed the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance - remained the most vocal advocate for the rights of obese Americans...
...there a lot of competition between designers to dress her? Yes. Everyone would love to dress her, and she looks great ... I think everyone would like to be a part of that, but I think it was surprising that Mr. de la Renta was so vocal about how slighted he felt, whereas I think others have not been...
...points to similar behavior in animals that suggests its evolutionary roots. If you step on a dog or cat's tail, it will let out a sharp yelp of pain, for example. "Swearing probably comes from a very primitive reflex that evolved in animals," Pinker says. "In humans, our vocal tract has been hijacked by our language skills," so instead of barking out a random sound, "we articulate our yelp with a word colored with negative emotion...