Word: kept
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...manager Scott Reed in January that Americans would tune out Washington even more completely if both the President and the Speaker were fending off scandal. Newt should pay the fine, said Dole, and get on with it. The two men worked on Gingrich privately for weeks, but the Speaker kept resisting. Marianne Gingrich was even more hostile: she didn't believe her husband had done anything wrong, and she refused to pony up the couple's savings. The Gingriches are worth about $200,000, and most of it is in Marianne's name. A small-town daughter of an insurance...
...April 1985 he began visiting the Soviet embassy in Washington to pass secrets. FBI cameras that are constantly trained on the Russian embassy from a nearby building recorded Ames' visits. Though he initially filed the paperwork explaining his forays, he eventually stopped doing so and kept going back. But the bureau never thought to wonder...
Norris Square sits in the middle of a graveyard of shuttered factories, crumbling houses and a thriving drug market, and yet this one city block--a park surrounded by houses, churches and community centers--has looked better every year for a decade. Parents once kept children inside because dealers controlled the park, which was filled with needles, condoms, broken glass and knee-high weeds. Today the park is neatly landscaped and filled with moms pushing strollers and children playing on new equipment...
...taking his own life as a rational way out," said Jeanne Friedman, a fund raiser in Berkeley who was close to Dorris for 26 years. "He felt that the charges would destroy his family, would destroy the body of work he had built up over his lifetime. He kept saying, 'All across the country, my books are in schools with young people. What do you think they're going to do when they hear about these charges...
...close to the couple, Jeffrey so frightened them that they essentially went into hiding, first in Montana, then in Minneapolis, where they moved in 1993 and where Erdrich and Dorris, on leave from Dartmouth, continued their writing. Their location, says a friend, was "a secret that had to be kept because they really believed someone in their lives would find them and hurt them...