Word: quieted
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...skies may be quiet over Baghdad, but for the citizens of Arkansas the air war has already begun. Each night, TV viewers are bombarded by ads from the state's two Senate candidates, Democrat Mark Pryor and the incumbent, Republican Tim Hutchinson. Since airtime can be bought relatively cheaply in this poor, rural state, local folks are seeing more political ads this year than just about anyone elsewhere. Democrats rap Hutchinson on corporate responsibility. Republicans call Pryor a tax raiser. And on it goes. Each side is pouring millions into the race; President Bush has been here four times...
...violently with a piece of national character that we're all taught in school: Americans deter and defend; we don't attack, and we don't conquer. It wasn't entirely true, but it was true enough so that when we broke our rule, we tried to keep it quiet. Bush believes that Americans now live in a kill-or-be-killed world and must behave accordingly: "America will act against such emerging threats before they are fully formed. We cannot defend America and our friends by hoping for the best... In the new world we have entered, the only...
...brought by the city's East European immigrants in the early 1900s and now proudly made by countless Shanghai grandmas. After you finish your phad thai or tikka masala, head to Face's bar, which opens out to a sweeping lawn. Sit in the Ming-style chairs for a quiet drink on the veranda. House drinks include the Chinese Whisper (Cointreau, Midori and lemonade) or a frozen vodka-cassis cocktail called the Shanghai Blues. The real action, though, is in the cushioned front salon, where the jeunesse dorée of the 21st century gather each night to discuss...
...soldiers simply fade away. Janko Bobetko, 83 and ailing, had been keeping a low profile in Zagreb, intent on living out his days in the quiet comfort of the villa he shares with Magdalena, his wife of 57 years. That was before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia banged hard on Bobetko's door in the Croatian capital's tranquil Tuskanac neighborhood - and demanded to see him in the Hague. The tribunal's five-count indictment, unsealed on Sept. 20, charges Bobetko, the Croatian army's former Chief of Staff, with "crimes against humanity" and "violations...
Part of me is happy that my favorite stall will once again be the quiet Science Center haven that it used to be. The shining door that seems so smeared now will probably be no cause for thought in a few months. But precisely because of this, I will find myself choosing to sit in the stall closest to the door, staring at names, taking a moment in my busy day of classes for a reality check...