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...eyes and close our ears. It urges us to abandon the opaque tunnels down which we race so blindly, so deafly. It urges us against the coward's impulse to step lightly around the tough issues and only ask the polite questions, while stifling those which clamor in mute repression for voice. It urges us against our penchant to accept the soundbite without listening to the sound. It urges us to turn the pointing finger inward and the embracing arm outward. It urges us to be watchful, to be waitful, to listen and to learn, to give some time...
Even as Basu's hideous death was added to the soaring number of carjackings nationwide, Congress was meeting to discuss how to clamp down on the crime. But it was little solace to her family and friends, mute with grief and occupied with the chores of loss. At W.R. Grace, supervisor Nicholas Spencer cleaned out Basu's desk, packed up a dozen snapshots of Sarina, collected her books and removed her coat from the back of the office door. In a drawer he came upon what was to have been a midday snack -- an orange and some crackers. Three boxes...
...Bush and everyone else keep saying, Iraq and Yugoslavia are challenges to the post-cold war order. That realization in itself should exclude, or at least mute, references to Vietnam in the debate over how to meet those challenges...
...Russian President shrewdly moved to mute criticism of his reform government by expanding its ranks to include Vladimir Shumeiko, a deputy speaker of the rebellious Russian parliament with ties to the military- industrial complex, as a new First Deputy Prime Minister alongside Gaidar. He also increased the number of Deputy Prime Ministers from six to 10, mixing strong advocates of reform with pragmatic technocrats. Says Yeltsin: "The possibility for a compromise has been exhausted with these appointments. There will be no more personnel changes...
...throughout the early primaries as Bush told Republican voters that his new first priority was repairing the domestic economy. Aiding Russia and the other republics became possible only when Buchanan's challenge waned after Bush's victories in Michigan and Illinois on March 17. But even then Bush was mute until Richard Nixon chastised the President for a "pathetically inadequate" nonresponse to Moscow's pleas for help. And even then nothing happened until the White House realized that last Wednesday morning Bill $ Clinton was about to unveil his scheme to assist the faltering former communists...