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...guns. Another grenade explodes, louder and nearer, and this time a machine gun fires too--at the post. "That's very close!" Owdeh shouts. The Israeli machine guns open up a brief, deafening volley. But their target has retreated. In the nervous silence, a soldier speaks up. "It's quiet, too quiet." The Israelis know this won't last. "There's no quiet here," Owdeh mutters. "In this place, there's no such thing...
...DILLARD, 87, who expanded his small clothing store into the country's third largest department-store chain, behind Federated and May; in Little Rock, Ark. With 340 stores in 30 states, Dillard's Inc. brought in sales of $8.7 billion last year. FORTUNE called the family-run chain a "quiet superstar...
...tall heaters by a glass wall barely keep the dancers warm between routines. Now it's Huang's turn to perform. Quickly marking the moves with three other male dancers, he turns on the music and jogs into formation. The pounding of drums begins and the quiet, demanding director in mismatched gray sweats is transformed...
...things start to look familiar as you turn onto Lebuh Armenian, it's not d?j? vu. Scenes from the recent Hollywood flop Anna and the King were filmed among the shophouses of this quiet street. The humble blue shophouse at No. 120 is where Sun Yat-sen, the founding father of modern China, planned much of the Chinese Revolution from...
Whatever the result, Mbeki will not act hurriedly. The least that can be expected is that, if Mugabe is returned, even under dubious circumstances, Mbeki will continue his quiet diplomacy, and he and other African leaders from the nepad initiative will maintain their steady pressure. That, more than hectoring from abroad, might even persuade Zimbabwe's head of state - one of the last of the colonial-era African nationalists - that a graceful retirement while in power is a better option than being censured out of office by his African peers...