Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time was short. Dodi and Diana had an 8:30 reservation that night at Benoit, a trendy one-star restaurant near the Place des Vosges. Sometime after 9 p.m., the couple headed off to dinner. Realizing en route that their plans for a quiet meal at Benoit would be spoiled by the photographers piling up outside the restaurant, Dodi suddenly opted to return to the marbled pillars and plush carpeting of the Ritz, where hotel security could be counted on to fend off the photographers...
This week seemed like a return to news as usual, once we had laid the Princess to rest and bid good-bye to Mother Teresa. But that was just appearances. Under the surface, a lot of quiet little revolutions kept the world distinctly topsy-turvy. True, there was no single earth-shattering plot twist, but we were left scratching our heads as a number of familiar characters started playing against type. Prince Charles turned out to be a good guy after all, and AOL's Steve Case made nice with CompuServe employees. The world's largest Communist country came...
...flags were raised or lowered in front of the quiet headquarters of the nation's most powerful university. This was just a changing of the guard...
...flags were raised or lowered in front of the quiet headquarters of the nation's most powerful university. This was just a changing of the guard...
...flags were raised or lowered in front of the quiet headquarters of the nation's most powerful university. This was just a changing of the guard...