Word: starkly
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Hardly more than two hours later, most of these signs had been vindictively removed. This is a stark violation of our freedom of speech on campus. More specifically, whoever removed our signs was attempting to stifle any Palestinian self-expression or form of protest...
...Christmas Dinner, Thorton Wilder returns to Our Town territory as he examines the progression of time through a series of New England Christmas dinners with the Bayard family. While the moral (the more things change, the more they stay the same) is conventional, a number of strong performances and stark though effective staging immediatly command our attention...
...During the annual state of the nation address, or informe, on Nov. 1, Salinas was interrupted repeatedly by catcalls and howls of disapproval from parties of the right and left. The irreverence stood in stark contrast to the respectful reception usually accorded a President in Mexico. When Salinas claimed that a new electoral code had been endorsed across the political spectrum and that a reliable voters' registration list was being drawn up, the opposition erupted in chants of "We repudiate electoral fraud...
...charts the trajectory of Paley's extraordinary career, from his purchase of a small group of radio stations in 1928 through his nurturing of CBS to become America's pre-eminent broadcast organization to his long, long goodbye and final, reluctant embracing of new owner Laurence Tisch. But in stark contrast to the encomiums written and uttered after his death last month, Smith's biography cuts a broadcast titan down to 21-in. size. Maybe smaller...
...Baghdad burn after all. To make matters worse, Israeli officials had to watch as the U.S. Senate voted last week to cancel Egypt's $6.7 billion military debt, marking the first time that Egypt will receive a better deal than Israel from the U.S., a stark reminder to Israelis of their diminishing importance as a strategic ally in the region...