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...villains in this saga are not sorry. Almost 70 years ago, C.S. Lewis wrote that "the greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil Dickens loved to paint but ... in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices." Never before has the truth of his words been so apparent. Vicky Brago-Mitchell, Los Angeles...
...have taught in Columbia?DD: They are rather different. I think that the whole atmosphere is quite different. Columbia is so very urban. People who select to go there are extremely talkative, even a little bit aggressive. You’re often having to sort of get people to quiet down enough to realize they don’t actually yet know very much. Here it’s rather the opposite. You more need to draw students out. The atmosphere’s a little bit quieter. And perhaps sometimes the students feel a little more hesitant to expose...
...reflects. “But there is something very mature about their approach. I think many are looking for a way to go back home, to work through their own childhoods.”In class, Tatar is both erudite and whimsical, eliciting quiet attention and gleeful laughter. Yet, as students left her lectures last week, no one would own up to considering a career in children’s literature. “It seems so easy to write, theoretically, but I’m scared children wouldn’t actually like my work,” says...
...never seen anyone as quiet as he was. Shyness didn't even seem to do it justice, because it would take him 10 to 20 seconds to respond to a question. He wore dark sunglasses so you could just see your own reflection in them. And he had a hat pulled down over his face, so it was difficult to see who he was. When he did answer, it was in a whisper ... It did seem to both Cheryl Ruggiero and to me that he was depressed. But of course I'm not a psychiatrist...
Bolivia had been enjoying some well earned quiet in recent days. South America's poorest nation seemed on the verge of a civil war last year between forces loyal to President Evo Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous head of state, and those aligned with the country's white elite. But after a new Constitution was finally approved in January, and an agreement was struck earlier this week to hold new presidential and congressional elections, calm seemed at hand...