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...helped the Jangs since they first crossed the border. He met several times with UNHCR officials who urged him to take the family to Mongolia, he says, but he deemed the trip too dangerous after he heard reports of refugees getting arrested on that route. So instead of a quiet escape, he arranged for the family to take a 24-hour bus trip to the capital. (They went in two buses, to increase the chances that at least some of them would make it.) In Beijing, he walked the family into the UNHCR office, beginning one of the highest-profile...
...also finds ways into Ehrmann's thinking. He says that high tech is in a "medieval period," likening the information explosion brought about by the Internet to the revolutionary transfer of oral knowledge to written text by monks working in quiet surroundings. To give himself and his 90 local employees a similarly reflective environment, he is building a subterranean office - not far from the helipad...
CHAPEL HILL, N.C.—With most of the students gone home from “Carolina”—the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—this quintessential college town, my home town, is usually pretty quiet in the summer. The lines in the grocery stores disappear, the waits for a table at the best restaurants dramatically decrease and the headache of finding a parking space downtown is temporarily relieved...
...near bankruptcy. And most of them are no longer showing up at the office. The Calcutta Stock Exchange, India's third- largest and one of the most venerable in Asia, looks like some backwater bus depot, rather than the bustling hub it used to be. Hallways are darkened and quiet. Many of the brokers appear to be either asleep on a bench or playing solitaire on the exchange's computer terminals. Desolate bourse employees sit idle, spitting red betel-nut juice on the walls. "Everyone is just loitering about," says Vivek Mahajan, a broker and former vice president...
...brought a quiet but unmistakable moral leadership. But his is a moral leadership tempered with realism and exercised with a light touch, highlighting issues and engaging with governments and other stakeholders in search of plausible solutions. A Ghanaian diplomat whose career has been spent mostly in the United Nations system, Annan has never wielded real power. And that may be his strength. His ability to effect outcomes derives entirely from his powers of persuasion, his knack for showing the partisans to any particular conflict that there is a high road, and that they're capable of walking...