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Saturday, Dec. 7, was national Students' Day in Iran, so Farnaz Shirazi - a middle-aged, middle-class housewife with two sons and a husband who drives a taxi - attended a demonstration outside Tehran University. But instead of listening to impassioned speeches, she found herself running down an alley, trying to get away from police clearing the street with truncheons. "We don't have free speech and we don't have freedom," Shirazi (not her real name) said after stopping to catch her breath. "I have come here to support the students for my children's future." Since early November, students...
...desk, director, playwright and Nobel laureate Gao Xingjian watches the rehearsal in dismay. The actors are tentative and uncertain, as if they don't quite know where they are going. The problem, in Gao's mind, is that they are complicating what should be simple. "Speak as you speak, listen as you listen," he orders. "Give me your true voice...
...House Senior Tutor Courtney B. Lamberth quoted from some of Smith’s favorite songs, including Sade’s “By Your Side” and Johnny Rivers’ “The Tracks of My Tears,” which Smith would often listen to for hours at a time...
...difficult to imagine our attention focusing on information from forced defectors, with a dangerous drop-off in more haphazard, but less absurd, traditional random-check weapons inspections. In a situation where so much rides on the outcome of these inspections, it is imperative that the defense department listen to the state department and U.N. critics and abandon this misguided, potentially devastating course of action...
...loved things intensely—she would listen to one song for 48 hours straight,” a friend said, citing hits by Fiona Apple, Sade and Stevie Wonder as examples...