Word: calm
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There is, however, an oasis of calm amid all the chaos: the Maison d'Hôtes Dubai hotel. Forget aqua-aerobics, 24 hour bars and tennis on the roof (for that you'll need to go to the Burj Al-Arab). Instead, the Maison comprises just three villas grouped around a garden with palm trees, two swimming pools and an outdoor restaurant serving fine French food - thanks largely to the two French women who opened the hotel...
...road first, we finally connected. The medical orderly was friendly and unflustered. Having examined the patient, she advised hospitalization as a matter of urgency, and dismissed any apprehensions on our part about my mother-in-law going under the knife at the local hospital. She was just trying to calm us down, I assumed. Little did I know...
...surprise that the old lions of the Christian Right are suddenly sputtering. "This is raising my blood pressure," admitted the normally calm, Mr. Rogers-sounding Dobson at the end of his radio show on Tuesday. Just a few weeks earlier, the conservative columnist and former Moral Majority vice president Cal Thomas wrote an essay calling Obama a "false prophet." Placing Obama's "Christianity" in quotes, Thomas charged that the candidate's statements about religion - including his belief that non-Christians can get to heaven - prove that he does not understand what it means to be a Christian...
...Pentagon report, Iraq's violence has hit a four-year low, and the country has made significant progress in establishing stability. But will it last? Or does the situation conform more to a report out of the Government Accountability Office? That one suggests that this period of calm, like others before it, is just a momentary blip...
Though a sense of calm has settled across some rural areas, where Sunni Awakening Groups have chased out insurgents, many Iraqis fear it's only temporary. And the Sadrists, who have so far cooperated in Maliki's Amara campaign, say their relationship with the government is still far from friendly...