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...But of these sophisms and elenchs of merchandise I skill not...
Milton, Areopagitica

Except he had found the
standing sea-rock that even this last
Temptation breaks on; quieter than death but lovelier; peace
that quiets the desire even of praising it.

Jeffers, Meditation On Saviors


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4.11.02

Spurred to action by the hostage crisis, the State Duma on Friday approved a broad array of anti-terrorism legislation -- from far-reaching restrictions on media coverage to secret burials for slain terrorists. At the same time, lawmakers rejected the idea of an independent parliamentary commission to investigate the handling of the crisis, which left at least 119 hostages dead.

The most controversial piece of legislation was a bill limiting press coverage of "anti-terrorist" operations, a term applied not only to missions like the Oct. 26 hostage rescue but to the war in Chechnya as well. The bill, passed Friday by a vote of 231-106, is expected to get approval from the Federation Council and President Vladimir Putin.
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Late Friday, law enforcement officials raided the Moscow offices of Versia, a muckraking weekly newspaper, and took away a computer and server containing the contents of a coming issue devoted in part to the raid to free the hostages, news reports said. Versia editor Rustam Arifdzhanov said the official reason for the seizure was a criminal investigation linked to an article published in May on top-secret facilities, Interfax reported.

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