Word: calmness
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...share a leisurely weekend lunch with a few old friends. With helicopters buzzing overhead on their way to and from the front, the group sat on the patio of an elegant private home, eating tomato soup, egg noodles and steak. What struck one participant was Olmert's inner calm, the confidence he has exuded as he leads Israel through its biggest crisis in years. "You could see the intensity in his body language," says the friend. "But he was not nervous. You could see that he feels he's the right guy to deal with the situation--that...
...When Hizballah took the soldiers hostage, Olmert faced a challenge. He could have opted for a limited response: in 2000, after all, five months after Israel pulled its troops out of southern Lebanon following an 18-year occupation, Hizballah kidnapped three Israeli soldiers, and Israel declined to retaliate, choosing calm over escalation and, eventually, opting for negotiations that resulted in an exchange of the three soldiers' bodies for prisoners held by Israel. Yet this time Olmert reacted by declaring the hostage taking an "act of war," and Israel responded in kind. Within 24 hours, Israel conducted some...
...decided against the fuel and instead careered up and down single-lane routes through the spectacular mountain scenery of the Chouf, the Druze homeland. Things were calm through the various towns of the area, with open stores and people on the streets. We saw a number of cars and minivans coming north, bedecked with white clothes and full of families with grim faces...
...Salaam may mean "haven of peace," but it's hard to find respite in this frenetic Tanzanian port. It's not impossible, though. Down a dusty dirt track in the Mikocheni district, a 10-minute taxi ride from the center, is Addis in Dar, an Ethiopian restaurant that serves calm-and culture-with its cuisine. On the upper floor in an old colonial house, soulful African music plays to a backdrop of traditional handicrafts and jewelry for sale, and de rigueur pictures of the "Lion of Judah," Emperor Haile Selassie, in his safari suit. The mesop-Ethiopian tables woven from...
...escape the Israeli onslaught in the south and in southern Beirut. Volunteers have had to take matters into their own hands. "We are welcoming thousands of refugees," said Salim Abu Ismail, the president of the civic center in Baaqline, the largest town in the Chouf, an oasis of calm amid the escalating violence. But the town is struggling to keep up. "Fruits and vegetables are available from the farms but some supplies have to come from Beirut. This will be a big problem...