How does the city of parks and colonial mansions and crowded markets and millions of tall, improbably narrow, painted houses — the city that tourists see first — get on with the silent official city that lets them know that the Party is omnipresent, that there is virtually no freedom of the press, no right to organize or protest, no legal opposition.
How does the city of parks and colonial mansions and crowded markets and millions of tall, improbably narrow, painted houses the city that tourists see first get on with the silent official city that lets them know that the Party is omnipresent, that there is virtually no freedom of the press, no right to organize or protest, no legal opposition.
"He has gone silent," one official said.
In Israel, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's government was silent, and senior officials refused to discuss the speech on the record.
Mr. Green, the public advocate, complained on Saturday that Mr. Ferrer had been "largely silent" as other officials debated rebuilding and improving security.
But the big question now lies in whether Chinese officials, silent on the deal so far, have secretly blessed the offer by the two Chinese companies and plan to give it regulatory approval.
The plans to close or to not close hospitals in New York State and City are well laid out by advocates on each side, yet one party appears oddly silent: disaster preparedness officials.
But all businesses were dark and silent today after officials recommended on Monday that residents evacuate in advance of the fire that had swept over a mountain and moved to about a mile from town.
Also Silent, as most officials on the Keystone Pipeline which would provide construction jobs in Canada, but Bruce Hamilton of the Amalgamated Transit Union; the first to oppose the Not Funny Keystone Pipeline says far more jobs would be provided if funds for public transit were made available.
I need you to remain silent about the official's calls.
