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...been involved, he likely could not have done a better job of weakening the hecklers inside the panel. Because of their actions, the only people restricting free speech were opponents of CIA/DHS practices, who would not even honor speakers’ rights to give their presentations. Attempts to shut off debate, especially when coupled with outrageous behavior, will not win over additional supporters...
...When lab is over, return to your room and draw the curtains shut. Assemble the stolen equipment on a clean, dry workspace—preferably near a fan, so that work can quickly become pleasure...
...bereted policemen, backed by 400 Lebanese soldiers and Syrian observers, took over security in Muslim West Beirut and at Beirut International Airport. For the first time in several weeks, militiamen all but disappeared from the city's streets, and the offices of the various Muslim militia groups were shut down. The changed situation prompted the feuding Christian militias on the other side of Beirut's "green line" to reunite their fighting forces. The Syrians had not stopped the artillery and rocket exchanges that rage sporadically across the line, but for the moment at least they had reduced the prevailing chaos...
...that inevitable query, there are two plausible responses. One is "Of course, this is a Disney picture." The other is "Shut up." Shut up and marvel anew at the wonders of Disney animation. It used to be that serious people objected to the strange, destabilizing jumble of motives and styles that so rapidly alternate in the typical animated feature from the studio. Always trying to have it both ways, they said, blending the humorous and the horrific, the benign and the baleful. Scared the grown-ups and muddled the moppets. Or was it the other way around? Anyway...
...deans confuse the issue. They’re using this as a false pretext to shut down the demonstration and violate the free speech of students,” Gould-Wartofsky said...