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...machines, universally known as VCRs, are selling at nearly double the rate of a year ago; with the holiday boost, December sales alone are expected to reach 1 million, a single-month record. ...Plop...click...whirr. The sound is more than just music to retailers' ears. In its quiet, hypnotic way, it is changing the habits of a nation. The versatile VCR can rerun yesterday's shows today and preserve today's for tomorrow. It can deliver movies old and new, the sights and sounds of Duran Duran in concert, a course in auto repair or a daily exercise regimen...
...chairman. All the players will be looking at second-quarter fund-raising reports, due out July 15, for confirmation of rumors that Gore's operation is struggling, in part because Gore has been preoccupied with writing a book. That's one reason he will be doing a round of quiet lunches and dinners with donors in New York City. His daughter Karenna Gore Schiff is also organizing a $50-a-head event Thursday night at the slightly-past-its-peak night spot...
...When the agents finally reported back that Abu Zubaydah had been captured in a gun battle, wounded but still alive, only quiet smiles went around the room. Everyone was too exhausted from the ordeal to cheer. Besides, there was no time for celebration. The approximately 10,000 pages of documents seized in the villa had to be translated quickly and analyzed. An interrogation team had to be organized for Abu Zubaydah, who when he had healed began giving CIA and FBI agents tantalizing hints of future strikes...
...seventeenth century. One hundred and fifty years later it had become a genteel area of rustling leaves and gracious houses, before Charles Bulfinch designed a formal layout for the area in 1801. The connecting row houses for which the Back Bay is famous were pioneered here, amid quiet fountains and charming parks...
...part of the fascination of Duterte's personality is that he also has an incongruously soft and liberal streak. He lives in a modest house on a quiet street. He sends food to Muslim communities during Ramadan and to Catholic communities at Christmas. Almost every day in his office he receives constituents seeking assistance. In one 10-minute span, he gives a mother the bus fare to her home village, counsels a woman seeking a job and tenderly tells a young, badly scarred burn victim that he will pay for her operation and follow-up treatment. (Duterte is known...