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...Elian Gonzalez, finally some peace and quiet. Ending five months of traumatic public scrutiny, federal agents quickly and painlessly whisked the six-year-old Cuban boy from his relatives' house in raucous Miami to an air base near Washington, D.C., where he spent Easter Sunday with his father. Thankfully, there he will stay, insulated from the violence in Little Havana and games of political football, until a court rules on his application for political asylum...
...gathered the group together in a quiet space. What's working really well? What's not? What do we need to improve upon?" she says...
...enormously popular women's magazine-on-the-air. O, a joint venture of Oprah's Harpo Entertainment Group and Hearst Magazines (which is printing 1 million copies of the first issue), is produced in New York City by a staff headed by editor in chief Ellen Kunes. A small, quiet, blond woman rendered even paler by the fluorescent bulbs of her office, Kunes was explaining the magazine last week with the careful blandness of a woman alert to the wiles of print journalists, when a loud voice called from down the hall. This was Gayle King, O's editor...
...Epps shrugs off the fiasco as if the bomb's blast didn't faze him one bit. Now 26, he has appeared in half a dozen films in the past three years, working steadily since his 1992 debut as a Harlem teen in Juice made casting directors notice his quiet forcefulness, strong build and deep, soulful eyes. (Danes has called him "one of the most beautiful men I've ever seen.") He's wrapped shooting on acclaimed Japanese auteur Takeshi Kitano's first American crime film, Brother, and this week stars in the new Love & Basketball, a $15 million hoop...
When the group visits museums, guides often stop and note how well-informed the children's critiques are, McVearry says--a major step for her students, who are often quiet...