Word: speech
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...college education before Kuwait University was inaugurated in 1966, went abroad to study. Before being graduated with a B.A. in mathematics from San Francisco State University, Khalifa spent two years at Berkeley, where his chemistry lab partner was Mario Savio, the radical student leader who founded the Free Speech Movement. "To be at Berkeley in the '60s was wonderful," says Khalifa. "We studied a bit, attended anti-Vietnam demonstrations and listened to Joan Baez, who was always around singing...
...speech can only mean that he wishes to hide the facts on Israeli opposition of Palestinians. Instead of recognizing the reality on the ground, this HIPAC member chose to attempt to silence the Palestinian voice and thereby perpetuate the incredible injustice...
...days since the recent postering by the Committee on Palestine, much discussion has been placed on the freedom of speech issue, often at the expense of discussion of the rather transparent motives of the committee. Though the controversial posters were placed with the stated goal of comme morating the third annivserary of the beginning of the intifada, their true purpose was clear enough: to viciously defame the Jewish state and its supporters with unsubstantiated knee-jerk propaganda...
...committee's posteres were designed to have the innocent, uninformed reader believe that the reason for the shutdown of Palestinian universities during the intifada was merely because of their role as "centers of protest." It would seem that Israel is attempting to abridge the right to free speech (which, of course, exists nowhere else in the Middle East...
Even one night of shortened sleep can produce adverse effects. People will briefly rise to an occasion, such as playing tennis or giving a speech, but mental concentration, flexibility and creativity suffer. Two nights of skimpy sleep, and rote functioning is affected. In laboratory tests, sleep-deprived subjects have trouble adding columns of figures or doing simple repetitive tasks like hitting buttons in a prescribed pattern. By the end of a week, people can be seriously impaired. "Driving home on Friday is a greater risk than on Monday, when you haven't been deprived of sleep all week," says Mary...