From " eloquent " back to " elegant " silence

Today, the New Straits Times (p.6) has quietly restored the use of the adjective "elegant" to describe the silence once maintained by PM Abdullah over the allegations made against him by former PM Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad.

Meanwhile, according to the New Straits Times, there is now a "loud 'aye' for breaking elegant silence". However, if I am not mistaken, there were previous reports in the New Straits Times that told us that there was also ' loud aye' (or words or combinations of words to that effect) for maintaing the "elegant silence".

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