Word: quietness
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...world's finest coffee, Addis Ababa is a city of cafés. It's also a town of spooks. Whether huddled over tiny glasses of Arabica in luxury hotel foyers or the anonymous place with battered tables and a concrete floor on the north end of Meskel Square, quiet men in dusty suits swap intelligence. There you'll overhear mobile-phone conversations that begin like this: "Ambassador! Of course I'll give the document back ... " Or you might meet close-cropped, burly Americans carrying khaki rucksacks labeled "U.S." who mumble about going "someplace in country." As Ethiopian Prime Minister...
Emboldened, some democracy activists predict the protests could eventually expand and escalate. "If the regime doesn't resolve the underlying economic problems-- and I don't think it can quickly--then things are not going to quiet down," says Khin Ohmar, an '88 student leader who now lives in exile in Thailand. "We've all been waiting for the point when normal people overcome their fear of the regime and rise up, and this could be that moment...
...there but plenty compared with the smoking hole the site had been. And in a briefly scary preamble to the week--one in which no one was hurt--New Yorkers jumped and then rolled their eyes as a criminal fool set off an ineptly built pipe bomb on a quiet street downtown. The locals, who now know a thing or two about what real danger is, made a few jokes and then went about their...
...commanders in Iraq repeatedly stressed that American troops were simply buying time for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government to do two things: buck up Iraqi security forces and take steps toward reconciliation that would, everyone hoped, lessen violence. The surge was designed to carve out a quiet space in which compromise rather than violence would rule. On this front, there is not much good news. Al-Maliki does not appear to need - or even want - to lead any hard negotiations. That's largely because the three major Shi'ite blocs in the Iraqi government are operating under what...
...says. Her name is Donna Ward, and she works in a mousetrap factory. "I've made up my mind," she says. "He's my man. He knows exactly what we want." When I ask her what impressed her most, she can't point to anything in particular. She's quiet for a moment, then says, "It's more the whole feeling...