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...Marquis contemplates the mysteries of Tepe Zargaran that he will never be able to unravel, a shout rings out from the other side of the excavation site. Ahmad Basir, a grinning 19-year-old, holds aloft a clay urn the length of his forearm. It took Basir several hours of painstaking work with a scalpel to free the artifact from the earth where it had lain. Before the archaeologists came, he explains, looters would simply hack away at a site with axes and shovels until they found statues or gold jewelry. "We didn't care about pots," he says...
...swiftly pulled down their shutters and fled the area. The youths torched car tires and attacked cars bearing government license plates. Parts of Lahore, the second largest city and capital of Punjab, were brought to a standstill for hours as Sharif supporters gathered outside the governor's mansion to shout defiant slogans and tear down People's Party posters. The two main shopping areas, Liberty and Anarkali, were shut down, as were a number of roads and bridges. Gunfire has been heard in parts of Rawalpindi, where some Sharif supporters have trashed posters commemorating Bhutto. Meanwhile, the country's stock...
...acceptance speech the night before at the Independent Spirit Awards was five minutes of wondrously ribald thank-yous and genial insults - and Jerry Lewis, the legendary, infamous clown, now 82, who would receive an honorary award. Would the long-ago star-director of imaginative, raucous comedies prance out and shout "Mel-vin!"? Would he, bearing in mind how he's been scorned by mainstream U.S. critics but revered in the pages of Cahiers du Cinema, give his acceptance speech entirely in French? Would he lecture the Academy because it cited him for his humanitarian efforts and not his comic genius...
...Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s radical socialist policies, or his notoriously exaggerated personality. Chávez’s constant interruptions of the Spanish prime minister in late 2007 at a summit in Chile brought the king of Spain, a normally soft-spoken man, to shout, “Why don’t you shut up?” Yet Chávez will not be shutting up any time soon. On Monday, Venezuela passed a national referendum that removed term limits for public officials, allowing Chávez and his appointees to potentially remain...
...protest. As Student Labor Action Movement representative Alyssa Aguilera ’09 pointed out, “As students, we can yell outside Holyoke Center, and we’re not going to get kicked out of Harvard.” But regardless of whether we shout at the Holyoke Center or show silent support with our rainbow ribbons, we must defend the rights of the whole community, a community that includes more than just students...