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It's Miyazaki's use of sound--and silence--that takes your breath away: the determined tap of the wolf princess's shoes as she scuttles over the fortress's rooftops; the silence of Eboshi and her army as they stare at this tiny yet formidable tomboy against the black sky.
The first sentence of the LAT anti-abortion web site story mentions that the site featured blood-dripping fetuses, a fact not mentioned by USAT . Nor by the NYT or the WP . Why the silence?
But the African National Congress' vast parliamentary majority will silence opposition, and votes were split neatly along racial lines.
Breaking a 16-year silence about Natalie Wood's mysterious drowning death, actor Christopher Walken says that nothing unusual took place the night she disappeared off her docked yacht, the Star reports.
Al Sharpton, who has been found liable for defaming Prosecutor Steven Pagones by accusing him of raping Brawley, refused to apologize and depicted the defamation suit as an attempt to silence a brave civil rights martyr, i.e., himself.