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...citizens to demand fair play in business and politics. Two weeks before he died of cancer in Brisbane aged 57, he wrote to friends that P.N.G. needed people with the courage "to stand up for what they believe to be right when confronted with a sea of silence and quiet consent." On April 16, the country lost just such...
...Board of Trustees. Public Displays of Affection, with the exception of hand-holding, are entirely forbidden. Its spring formal, the Liberty Ball (to which I was invited but could not attend) was summed up as “gentlemanly.” And PHC’s quiet campus is close to Washington, D.C., where so many aspirant students wish to end up, but far enough away (10 minutes from the nearest Starbucks by car) to enjoy a cloistered feel...
...Whitman, 47, is not just the genial host at this giant party, picking up a fee for each listing and a small percentage of each sale. She's also the quiet giant of the Internet world, one of a mere handful of Silicon Valley CEOs who survived the dotcom bubble with her reputation unscathed. A business veteran, she cut her teeth in the top echelons of Disney, Hasbro and Procter & Gamble, resurrecting failing brands like Keds shoes and FTD florists. When she was offered her current job in 1998, Whitman was highly skeptical. Why leave everything she had built...
...things, but legions of adult Harry Potter fans are annoyed that author J.K. Rowling is dismissed by the world's literary gatekeepers, maybe because she happens to be the highest paid author ever and because she writes books that children love. But no one need worry that this rather quiet, funny, passionate writer won't get her due. Even as Rowling maintains her reclusive lifestyle, writing her sixth Potter book while her baby sleeps, her power has become too great to ignore. You can measure it in the numbers--254 million books sold in 61 languages in 200 countries, earning...
...real hero in an age of phony phone-in celebrity, which hands out that title freely to the most spoiled and underqualified. Her quiet voice of reason makes the world look noisy, mad; it is a low mantra of grace in an age of terror, a reminder of everything we take for granted and just what it can take to get it. Thinking of her, you can't help but use anachronistic language of duty and personal sacrifice...