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...wife Claire Shipman has been covering the White House for NBC News (her cubicle in the press section is one flight up from TIME's), while John's mother, TV correspondent Nancy Dickerson, reported on four Presidents, starting with J.F.K. "With Bush, but in a very much smaller and quieter way, it feels as if I'm returning to my corner of the family store," John says...
...movie won five Oscars--including Best Actor (Hopkins), Best Actress (Jodie Foster) and Best Picture--and took a huge bite out of the box office. A decade later, the slickly subdued, eerily serene Dr. Hannibal Lecter still inhabits our nightmares because Hopkins knows that as an actor, "the quieter you are, the more terrifying...
...Those were the most noticeable demonstrators but there were others who were quieter. Henry Reed, 65, came from Boston for the day. He stood, rain dripping from his gray mustache, on an embankment that overlooked the parade route. He held up a hand-made sign on a broom handle. The sign read "Bush democracy" but the word "democracy" had a red line through it. "I was very strongly affected by the situation in Florida," he said. "If Bush had won fair and square I wouldn't be here to protest." Mr. Reed wore a suit and tie, underneath...
...Wisconsin, Thompson approved bills restricting access to abortion and family planning services, including a 24-hour mandatory waiting period for women seeking abortions, a parental consent law, and a ban on certain abortion procedures that was eventually reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court. But Thompson has been quieter than Ashcroft about his opposition to abortion. That reticence continues today; if Thompson is looking for a fight from his Senate panel, he's doing it quietly. When asked during his hearings whether he would seek to repeal FDA approval of the controversial "abortion pill," RU-486, Thompson replied...
...this year's campaign was much quieter, and Gusmorino, who was endorsed by a majority of current council members, finds a council contented by his victory...