Word: calme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very calm, and very sure of herself," Clark said. "She deals with the pressure well, and doesn't play as a freshman...I can't say enough about...
...better new novelists, Indian or otherwise, is Sherman Alexie," says TIME's John Skow. His latest book, Indian Killer (Atlantic Monthly Press; 420 pages; $22), is a murderous urban legend not calculated to calm anyone's racial unease. Rage builds slowly in the heart of John Smith, a decent but troubled Native American who was taken from his 14-year-old Indian mother and adopted by well-meaning whites. Unreconciled to his new life but unable to speak a native language, and not even knowing which tribe his mother belonged to, he lives a solitary existence as a high-steel...
...Khatib: "It proves to the Israelis that he has certain cards to play if they continue to stall the peace process." Certainly Arafat was in no great hurry to squelch the uprising. On Wednesday Israeli security officials expressed frustration that he was not responding to their appeals to restore calm. On Thursday afternoon Arafat issued a call to his forces for restraint. But it was half-hearted, and the violence, though lessened, continued into Saturday. Netanyahu, once so resolutely standoffish, phoned Arafat asking for a meeting. But the Palestinian leader gave no firm answer. Says Jirbawi: "He wants to give...
...bigger debate was whether what Saddam had done warranted Washington's response. "A Western whack on an Arab state, however unsavory, causes twitchiness," says an official in Kuwait, "and if the reason is not immediately apparent, the twitchiness increases." To calm the twitch, Perry spent three days in five Arab and Middle Eastern capitals. Perry's argument, according to a Western official in Kuwait: "Saddam showed his capacity to do reasonably complicated military operations effectively in a short time, and if he got away with such actions in the north, he would be emboldened to try the same where...
...teeming with people when I arrive. Tens of thousands of alternateens fill the park--most of them too young to vote--with pockets of older folks mixed in. There are a smattering of signs calling for "decriminalization," but the atmosphere is that of a huge party of very calm people. Letters to Cleo, an announcer tells us, is about to take the stage; I almost tripped over Robert Reich, but I can't even get close enough to Letters to Cleo to see them...