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While it has not yet been discerned whether the tape was taken during the March raids, a source asserted, "They are contacting people that they’ve found on the tapes."

Despite police officers’ efforts to allow political speech, all that could be heard were jeers and insults, though the word “sham” could be discerned amid the din.

So goes the riddle of the Sphinx, and the answer, as Oedipus discerned, is man: crawling as an infant, bipedal as an adult, walking with a cane in old age.

Many discerned an environmental message in the vibrant green artwork, which appeared on Sunday — St. Patrick’s Day.

Dark galaxies are entities whose stars are so sparse and faint that their light cannot be discerned other than as a thin, transparent haze that doesn’t seem to contain any stars at all.