The program doesn't dwell on Flight 93's most celebrated passenger, Todd Beamer, whose declaration "Let's roll" became a presidential rallying cry.
The strong performance by Mr. Nikolic's Progressive Party could also affect Serbia's attitude toward regional reconciliation, including with its neighbor Kosovo, whose declaration of independence in 2008 was vehemently rejected by Serbia and is a continuing source of anger.
The potential triumph of nationalistic parties could affect Belgrade's attitude toward regional reconciliation, including its neighbor Kosovo, whose declaration of independence from Serbia in 2008 was rejected by the Belgrade government and is a source of continuing anger here.
Interestingly, some of the greatest persecutors of homosexuality in America were Freudian analysts, whose declaration that queerness was a sickness that could poison society was pounced upon by right-wing bigots as much-needed intellectual ballast.
Banned in Stalin's USSR, Erdman's drama features a man whose declaration that he is about to kill himself is hijacked by those around him, who see in his death a means of bolstering their own causes.
Dissatisfied with the corrupt and inefficient Spanish administration, lack of political representation, and high taxes, Cubans in the eastern provinces united under the wealthy planter Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, whose declaration of independence in October 1868, the Grito de Yara ("Cry of Yara"), signaled the beginning of the Ten Years' War, in which 200,000 lives were lost.
Our most high-profile critics sound like the man at my University of Maryland talk, unwilling to confront any contradiction between a nation whose declaration of independence promises "complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of race, religion and sex" and an occupation that has held millions of Palestinians as non-citizens for more than forty years.
Of course, there will always be a breed of music fan whose ears are closed to any girlband, or whose declaration that "I like pop music – as long as it's good" usually just means they liked a Kylie song 12 years ago, but Girls Aloud built up a strong, diverse fanbase.
Drawing parallels with a 1941 London meeting of allied governments, whose declaration in support of diplomacy and peace was an early precursor of the UN charter, Ban says the world is approaching a similar point in history and needs to reaffirm its commitment to humanity.
