FIFA calls for minute's silence after stampede

A minute of silence will be held before international soccer matches Tuesday and Wednesday after 19 fans died in a stadium stampede in the Ivory Coast.

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Court affirms Texas schools' moment of silence law

A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a Texas law that requires public school students to observe a daily minute of silence in order to pray, reflect or otherwise remain quiet.

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Iraqi boy deafened in bomb attack hears again

A U.S. missile strike in Iraq took Mustafa Ghazwan's hearing nearly two years ago. On Tuesday, far from home, the 3-year-old's wall of silence finally cracked.

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West condemns Mugabe, ignores other Africa despots

Nigeria. Rwanda. Uganda. Ethiopia. Gabon. Robert Mugabe's regime in Zimbabwe has plenty of competitors for the title of "least democratic in Africa."

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Stifled by regime, Myanmar cyclone victims suffer in silence

Apart from the sound of children crying, the town of Labutta is strangely silent.

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Man who spent 26 years in prison freed on bond

A man locked away 26 years for murder was granted a new trial and freed on bond Friday with the help of two attorneys who came forward with a client's confession after he died in prison.

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Class Action Planned in Ill. School Suit

A federal judge favors expanding a legal challenge to a mandatory moment of silence in classrooms into a class-action lawsuit that would include all Illinois school districts.

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Thomas: No Questions in 2 Years

Two years and 144 cases have passed since Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas last spoke up at oral arguments. It is a period of unbroken silence that contrasts with the rest of the court's unceasing inquiries.

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Court Upholds Texas Moment of Silence

Texas schoolchildren will continue to pray or meditate during a daily minute of silence after a federal court threw out a challenge to the state law.

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Court Allows Ill. Moment of Silence

A federal judge refused Monday to temporarily bar schools from observing a brief period of prayer or reflective silence for students, but he allowed a lawsuit contesting the practice to move forward.

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Teen Challenges Moment-Of-Silence Law

A 14-year-old girl and her outspoken atheist father filed a federal lawsuit Friday challenging a new Illinois law requiring a brief period of prayer or reflective silence at the start of every school day.

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Some great words of wisdom here.

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At the mention of the word 'evangelism' most Christians grow weak at the knees, their heart rate rises rapidly, and they suddenly being to perspire. They say, 'You want me to do what? What do you mean 'share the gospel by using actual words'? Witnessing?!'

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An aide at a Grand Junction nursing home has been arrested on charges of using a pillow to silence a screaming patient

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The truth can be funny!

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Mimi is publishing her book concerning her affair with JFK when she was a White House Intern. "Ms Mercandetti, who was herself a White House intern under Gerald Ford, said the book would be a "woman's coming-of-age story" -"

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Thousands of books drenched in cooking oil – that is the latest exploit of the Zionist fanatics who regularly attack property and people in Paris and get away with it.

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What is the Spirit of a Person? Where does it go?

Some people believe the spirit of a person comes from God. Others believe there is no such thing. What is the spirit of a human being and where does it go when we die?

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A walk through the trees

Walking in the late evening can brandish the most amazing views from my neck of the woods. Comforting in turbulent times, you leave frustrated and return replenished. Leaving your worries and aches upon the armor coating of these trees for which I can not bare any longer.

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Is Beijing trying to quiet observances of the Tiananmen Square anniversary?

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The true consequences of the killing of Dr Tiller

The shocking killing of Dr George Tiller in Wichita, especially in a place of worship, will have reverberations far more that anti-abortionists could ever envisage.

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The Summer of My Discontent, a Story of Sexual Abuse

This is something I started in Scott Butki's "Writing Down the Bones" Topic -

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Wednesday is International Noise Awareness Day and it's simply too loud in Germany, according to the country's Federal Environment Agency.

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Andrew Klavan reveals the strategy used to silence the criticism and ideas of conservative thinkers.

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Laurie Higgins from the Illinois Family Institute has stated that she believes that it is more beneficial for children to miss school and learning than to be subjected to learning about a civil rights reality.

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As a sometimes composer of music who often feels overwhelmed by the din that surrounds me, I can identify with Gordon Hempton's quest to find places without human noise.

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A Poetic Thread

We sit silent who should not silent be. We fold our arms and shake our worldly heads While evil men swiftly and silently Rape women, murder children in their beds.

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The 13 Principles that guided the life of one of our Founding Fathers. Can people apply these today?

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Season of Nonviolence 2009 |Day 11: Contemplation

Day 11 -- CONTEMPLATION (Feb. 9) For at least three minutes, relax, breathe, and let your mind be fed by "whatsoever is good and beautiful and just." Sacred scripture states, "as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." Online Meditation Rooms

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Surprise, surprise: Fewer than 24 hours after the end of the Bush presidency, a former analyst at the National Security Agency revealed on MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" that Bush's National Security Agency "monitored all communications" of Americans and tha …

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I've long believed my species, the human species, has gone terribly awry.

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Obama has maintained his silence. "There is only one president at a time," his spokesmen tell the media.

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At the Hoh River trailhead, where a path disappears into the gloom under giant, lichen-draped Douglas fir and western red cedar, I meet up with Gordon Hempton. He stands calm and dry under an umbrella, comfortable in the wool and cotton clothes he has chosen for their silence.

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"I've got nothin' to lose." – Sarah Palin on Rush Limbaugh October 14, 2008 Sarah Palin Alaska Really?

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Jessica Alba has appeared in a raunchy bondage-themed advertising campaign in an attempt to encourage young people to vote.

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Experiencing our life from the inside means taking time each day to simply be alone and quiet in the presence of our soul.

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