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...political ambitions. For anyone who's followed him since the late 1980s, it was an unexpected turn. He's a very soft-spoken man who prefers to work behind the scenes, and has consistently kept a low profile. Unlike some of the other oligarchs, he largely remained quiet. Also, Khodorkovsky's father is Jewish, and it's accepted political wisdom in the circles around him that in light of the the prevailing social attitudes, no Jew could win the presidency in Russia. Still, it now emerges that Khodorkovsky was devising a campaign to transform Russia into a parliamentary system...
This year’s election has been very quiet so far, Maher says...
...kids socializing and putting stuff in their lockers and moving from one group to the next." What the Packer population was learning was that once computers are connected, they aren't just how we get information; they're how we communicate and relate to one another too. "It was quiet at the very beginning, when it was so new," Boucher remembers. "You'd see all these kids in the hallways with their computers open, and you'd be like, Wow, is this how it's always going...
...Everyone on the team just loves being around him,” Pettit says. “He definitely came in as the quiet kid, but once he was comfortable, he was far from quiet...
Still, 10 minutes into quiet time, Lannon turned around and asked Welch if he wanted to play a game...