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...relay carrying the Olympic torch to the site of the Games is supposed to convey the inextinguishable vigor of the Olympic spirit. But the Chinese are finding it instead a symbolic disaster. The running of the torch in London Sunday was marred by attempts by human rights protesters to extinguish its fire, but on Monday in Paris the ceremony became an outright farce: security officials doused the flame twice in the face of demonstrations to block its progress, and wound up driving it to the end-of-day handoff ceremony at Charléty Stadium on the edge...
...wish to stamp out racism wherever it exists, but unfortunately, this bill won’t do that. Skelos has compared the image of the noose to that of a swastika or a burning cross. But his examples prove our point: banning an image doesn’t extinguish the hatred behind it. Germany banned the swastika in 1945, yet neo-Nazis still fester in the far-right National Democratic Party. And we highly doubt that banning burning crosses would kill the Ku Klux Klan. Rather, these hate groups would find another symbol to abuse, or ignore the law altogether...
...HUPD observed an individual yelling in front of 64 Louis Prang St. in Boston that there was a fire in the building. The officers noticed smoke coming from the second floor of the building and the Boston Police Department (BPD) and Boston Fire Department were called in to extinguish the fire...
...Buddhist clerics have rallied across the country, their daily alms routes turned into paths of protest. Some walked quietly with their begging bowls overturned - an implied excommunication of the military leaders whose punitive fuel hikes provoked the first demonstrations back in August. Initially, Burma's generals tried to extinguish the protests by arresting dozens of pro-democracy activists who had kick started the civil disobedience. But with the Buddhist clergy quickly taking over leadership of the movement, on Wednesday Sept. 26 the regime unleashed a violent crackdown on the protesters - a potentially dangerous move in this deeply devout nation...
Wednesday's demonstrations cap what has turned into the longest sustained display of dissent in Burma in nearly two decades. At first, the ruling junta, which has maintained an iron grip for 45 years, tried to extinguish the protest movement by arresting dozens of pro-democracy activists. But clapping handcuffs on Buddhist monks is a far more difficult proposition in this deeply devout nation. "The monks are the only ones who really have the trust of the people," says Khin Omar, an exiled dissident now living in Thailand. "When they speak up, people listen...