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...chose him: This quiet Republican Senator jumped ship from the GOP this week to become an independent, causing perhaps the most significant mid-term shakeup in the history of Capitol Hill...
...Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs GOP chair: Phil Gramm, Texas Democratic chair: Paul Sarbanes, Maryland Effect of change: Sarbanes? quiet style means less publicity for committee and his distaste for financial mega-institutions could mean fewer mergers...
...white stucco walls of the presidential mansion. As he points out a Ju Ming sculpture he admires and some work he's had done to the house, his gestures are compact, as if his arms automatically seek the shortest distance between repose and extension. His bearing is quiet, but always lurking is the authority, both of his formidable intellect and his high office. To his credit, he wears his achievements as easily as his blue oxford shirt. In these moments, as he shows off his newly remodeled home, he becomes the Taiwanese everyman?successful, middle-class, proud of his detached...
...feel welcome. Constantino, 42, knew that a top predictor of a child's success is parental involvement in his or her education. But Stonewall faced a problem familiar to many schools in the suburbs, where parents in two-career families commute long distances to demanding jobs--and where a quiet kind of educational neglect often breeds mediocrity...
Ellroy lives a quiet life in Kansas City, Kans., with his wife Helen Knode, "whom I love more than my life and would happily die for," and his bullterrier Dudley, which chases female joggers through his neighborhood. After years in a drug and alcohol haze, he takes care of his health, eating well and working out regularly. At 53, he says, he is still "10 years from the top of my game." He travels tirelessly around the world to promote his books as they come out, then returns to his six-bedroom house in Kansas City--to think...