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...conundrum of Kim, who succeeded his father Kim Il Sung eight years ago as North Korea's absolute ruler, has flummoxed Washington for years. The xenophobic leader can veer from aggressive hostility to quiet bids to mend relations with the outside world, particularly if other nations help leapfrog his poverty-stricken people into the modern era. Like his father, when Kim has been most desperate for foreign aid, he has used the rattle of nukes to frighten the U.S. and its allies into buying...
...College’s newest all-female social club got off to a quiet start late last night, as about 40 students received cards at their doors inviting them to the inaugural event of the Sabliére Society...
...They were so quiet and I got tied up on the phone,” Illingworth said. “I don’t think they even knew that I was supposed to see them...
...than anything else,” his major extracurricular has been the Society of Physics Students. “I know a lot of the quieter people who are into science on campus,” notes Harpaul, who has been told that he represents “a quiet majority of Harvard students who maybe didn’t feel like they knew anyone else on the class marshal ballot...
...reports that when Muhammad and Malvo showed up in July to visit Muhammad?s former sister-in-law Sheron Norman in Louisiana, the older man introduced the boy as his son, according to Norman. "You could tell (Malvo) was scared," Norman told the Associated Press. "He was very, very quiet." And Muhammad was not, by all acounts. Ex-wife Carol Williams told the Seattle Times, "He wasn't a quiet type. He liked to talk. He liked to mingle with people...