Word: vow
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Around 50 queer students and supporters maintained a vow of silence from 9 a.m to 5 p.m. as part of a National Day of Silence to draw attention to prejudice and harassment directed against the bisexual, gay, lesbian, and transgender community...
...Vow-takers displayed cards explaining their silence: “Please understand my reasons for not speaking today...My deliberate silence echoes that silence, which is caused by harassment, prejudice, and discrimination. I believe that ending the silence is the first step toward fighting these injustices. Think about the voices you are not hearing today. What are you going to do to end the silence...
Participants also ate lunch together at Lowell House, using paper and pencil to convey messages. Vow-takers broke their silence together at a rally in the Leverett...
...Roman Catholic Church is a stern hierarchy that has always kept its deliberations secret, policed itself and issued orders from the top. An obedient priest moves up in power by keeping his head down, winning rewards for bureaucratic skills and strict orthodoxy. When Cardinals are created, they take a vow before the Pope to "keep in confidence anything that, if revealed, would cause a scandal or harm to the church." When it came to sex abuse, the Vatican essentially told bishops, You're on your own. But if saving the church from scandal was literally a cardinal virtue, then...
...Arafat remained defiant, vowing never to surrender and inviting Israel to martyr him. His fight, he said, would be carried forward by Palestinian children. And even as he made this vow, a teenage girl from the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade blew herself up in a Jerusalem supermarket, taking two Israelis with her. Elsewhere, an Islamic Jihad militant killed two Israelis in the Gaza settlement of Netzarim, and four more died at the hands of a Hamas gunman who infiltrated the West Bank settlement of Eilon Moreh. At least four Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli incursion into Ramallah...