Word: calm
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...such a storm-tossed new world, it figures that anything beautiful and eerily calm was bound to go. The editors had set it up for us, as it turned out - Amber got Week 11's first featured-possible-victim slot, with everybody (mostly Tina) saying how she was tougher and wilier than they thought, but not so tough and wily that they wouldn't easily cook her up and eat her with the last of the rice - but of course, that selective editing by the boys at CBS has us pretty bollixed...
...Capitol Hill: Well-behaved hometown crowd The standoff presented U.S. legislators with probably their toughest challenge - keeping quiet and letting the White House sort it out. And for the most part, they managed to remain calm and dignified despite 24-hour news television's hunger for threats and ultimatums. Lucky for everyone, though, that the issue was resolved before they returned from recess...
...especially vulnerable to charges of fomenting danger by doing their jobs, and thus alienating customers - not to mention important government sources they'll need access to later. Of course, it's not reporters' job to intentionally inflame bad situations. But it's emphatically not their job to try to calm them artificially. It's their job to report events as the facts indicate. Here, the facts are that a group of Americans are being held on an island off the coast of China, which they are not allowed to leave except in exchange for a concession (an apology...
...first time they stared down a classroom of unruly kids who would rather badger a rookie instructor about her sex life than learn about George Washington. "At first it was like a riot every day. I had to call the dean and security just to get the class to calm down," says Gary Huddleston, a former lawyer from Houston who teaches science at a high school in Brooklyn. "I had no idea how demanding it would be." Sandra Feldman, president of the American Federation of Teachers, says new teachers should have about a year of classroom training with a mentor...
...contrast to the overflowing and unruly crowd Horowitz encountered at his address at Boston University last Monday, the roughly 150 students in attendance last night were calm and courteous, remaining seated throughout the moderated debate...