Word: calme
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Northern Ireland maintained an uneasy calm a day after Protestant militants killed a Catholic man. "The killing is not being read as a definitive response to the cease-fire," says TIME Dublin reporter Tony Connelly. "A Catholic has been killed once a week or once every two weeks since a long time before the cease-fire." Still, he says, the enmity and distrust between Protestants and Catholics has hardly waned since the declaration of a cease-fire. According to a poll released today in the Irish media, a scant 9 percent of all Protestants in Ireland believe the cease-fire...
Chailly and the Concertgebouw bring the strictness to life, but not without a little flair. It's quite a change from the calm, reserved playing the orchestra usually produces in performances of the standard Teutonic masterworks. However, one can almost see a bunch of musicians in Moscow, completely ignorant of stylists such as Jelly Roll Morton and Duke Ellington, taking some joy in the fluffy flourishes of Shostakovich's work. These musicians had perhaps heard of Scott Joplin, and in fact Joplin seems the closest to Shostakovich in form...
Doctors worked overtime trying to calm the nerves of panicky epilepsy patients after the Food and Drug Administration announced that a popular new drug had been linked to two fatal cases of aplastic anemia. Researchers say that the odds of contracting the rare form of anemia are about 1 in 5,000 and that the drug, called Felbatol, could still prove to be the best choice for some patients...
...actively seeking higher offers for QVC from telephone companies and other cable concerns. And even if no one else comes along, Diller can console himself with the $100 million or so that he stands to make by selling his QVC holdings to Comcast. But that is not likely to calm a restless Diller. "Barry's not a pig," says his close friend Diane Von Furstenberg. "The money is a consequence, but not his first goal. Barry has always fulfilled his dreams...
...Denver, for one, is determined to head off a reprise of last year, when a string of vicious youth crimes unhinged the city's calm. The upshot is an activities budget of $6 million, twice the amount allotted a year ago. Recreation programs -- from swimming and camping to video production -- have grown from 900 last year to 1,300 this summer...