Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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FOUNDED Seventeen years ago, Phil Lader (the current U.S. ambassador to Britain) and his wife Linda were bored by the thought of a quiet Dec. 31 so they invited 60 families to spend New Year's discussing the big issues...
...WHAT HAPPENED] The unmarried MacArthur paid her $15,000 to keep quiet. He didn't want his mom to know...
...beginning of the summer, I did not realize that in Northern Westchester I need to be on my guard. Now I see the quiet tree-lined streets and well-dressed Westchester residents as a mask. I feel a little unsafe and a little less free than I did in June. The E.R. scared me, but it was not shocking. In a city, we know to be wary of crime and of other people. I respect city residents for their courage. They take measures to keep themselves safe so they can live in a community that does not wear a mask...
...Slate editor Michael Kinsley says Conde Nast chief Si Newhouse initially asked him to edit the weekly. But in a late-night phone call the magazine mogul retracted the offer, asking Kinsley to say he'd withdrawn his name. Kinsley, a former Crossfire host, at first agreed to keep quiet about the now-you-see-it, now-you-don't almost job, but then, Kinsley writes in his e-mail, "on reflection... I decided I was not inclined to do him the favor of not discussing...
...Scandal of the Century that Monica Lewinsky can slip in and out of Washington almost unnoticed these days. Ever since she dumped her self-promoting lawyer, who seemed to escort her around town in part to stay in the pictures, she has traveled incognito, and even spent the occasional quiet weekend in New York City. She still puts her telephone through daily workouts, calling her attorneys and advisers around the clock, and she's taken up knitting to distract herself from the endless talk shows about her case. Last week she went to California to see her father...