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...earlier, calmer part of the week, MSNBC had made a creditable debut. The well-hyped challenger to CNN brought some big guns to the competition: top NBC correspondents like Andrea Mitchell and Gwen Ifill contributed updates on major stories during the day, and network stars like Tom Brokaw, Katie Couric and Bob Costas took turns as host of a nightly interview show called InterNight. (Just how long they will continue to do double-duty for MSNBC remains to be seen.) With its pleasantly bustling set, slick presentation and hot-wired anchors, MSNBC made CNN look a little dowdy...
Life really is calmer, slower and friendlier outside the city...
Currents were so strong in parts of the city that outboard motors strained uselessly--an oddly fitting trial for the birthplace of Arthur Rimbaud, one of whose most famous poems was Le Bateau Ivre (The Drunken Boat). In the calmer Charleville streets of Rimbaud's boyhood district, swans cruised nonchalantly like grand seigneurs inspecting their expanded watery estates. Downstream in Belgium, the Meuse overpowered a number of evacuation efforts in the town of Dinant. Householder Tony Delussu was exasperated after two floods. ``I'd just finished putting new wallpaper in my living room,'' he explained. ``I won't stay around...
...rebuilding campaign was not. Thousands of workers and battalions of heavy equipment streamed into Kobe. The government announced it had begun building 19,000 housing units, though that will fall far short of present needs. Most important, Kobe's residents seemed to be recovering their native determination. ``People seem calmer,'' said Ichizo Kubo, 74, the owner of a building-supply shop. ``They have shared the experience of the quake and seem ready to work together...
...chaotic energy of much of Taylor's music is periodically interrupted by periods of intense calm, but even the calmer moments require concentration to grasp the tantalizing hints of romantic melodies that flit from underneath his fingertips...