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...continuing uprising is a domestic political nightmare for both Jordan and Egypt, whose regimes are coming under growing pressure from a citizenry enraged by images of carnage from just across the border. It is in their urgent self-interest to calm the situation in the West Bank and Gaza, which is why they've been promoting a cease-fire plan with the Israelis, Palestinians, Americans and Europeans. But there are few signs, thus far, that either the Israelis or the Palestinians are politically able to embrace its terms...
...Marguerite Michaels: The verdict was announced at about 6.30, and the reaction was pretty subdued. There weren?t that many people gathered to hear the verdict, maybe 20 or 30. Those that were there kept pretty calm...
...death of his parents and the handicap his medical condition imposes on him. D is a boisterous, and sometimes obnoxious youth who is looking for some fun (which often means trouble). Trix is the third member of this motley crew; the mini lapses of violent behavior that interrupt his calm and sophisticated demeanor give him the nickname “Schitzy...
...spirit. Recently, author David Brooks spent time on the campus of Princeton University getting to know the students, and he published what he learned in a searching article in the Atlantic magazine. The students were thoroughbred products of the American educational system--gifted, disciplined, driven to succeed, with a calm but consuming focus. And, Brooks found, they were curiously flattened too. There was no evidence of the wildfire energy of the college student, no evidence of much moral passion. More troublingly, there was no sign at all of the sweet and fleeting belief that they could try things and fail...
Parents who might be worried about their children's reading a book glorifying extortion don't know the half of what's wrong with Artemis Fowl. The writing is abysmal: "Keep calm, he derided himself." Or, "If one of his own men had pulled a stunt like this, he'd have their stripes for it." Cliches fester on nearly every page: "hollow threat" on 87, "no mean feat" on 88. Dialogue is rarely "said"; it is "whined," "quipped" or "grunted" ad, literally, nauseam. Supposedly admirable characters "smirk...