Word: quiets
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...rest of the day, Qubah remained largely quiet as U.S. forces fanned out through the city. At each house, soldiers marked the back of the neck of each male with a number inked in black marker. By the end of the day, most every man in Qubah bore numbers like 600-10 and 730-5, designations for the neighborhood and home they were from according to a grid U.S. troops drew over the village. Lt. Col. Andrew Poppas said the numbering system allowed U.S. troops to tell whether anyone was moving about the village despite a lockdown...
Immigration may be the hot topic in France's presidential campaign, but who'd have thought it would spark such a fury in the quiet, pastoral Breton town of Montfort-sur-Meu? But unlike the tough, often vaguely xenophobic, immigration positions of some of the presidential candidates, the good people of Montfort are demanding the return and regularization of 23 illegal Malians arrested for deportation when they turned up for work last month...
...A380 left the ground, I might not have noticed. Movement was barely perceptible in the spacious business-class seat unless I watched the touchscreen in front of me and saw the plane move along the runway. Or looked out the window. Both decks of the Airbus behemoth were as quiet as if you were in a plane with the engines shut off. But the new A380 already had its four Rolls-Royce Trent 900s guzzling the 46,000 lbs. of fuel the 90-minute ride was expected to consume. The nose of the largest commercial airliner in the world turned...
Senegal's capital was unusually subdued for a Saturday night in late February. In Dakar's popular Sicap Baobab district, the normally packed Toucan restaurant was empty and quiet, save for the voice of local pop star Cheikh Lô coming from speakers above the bar. In 1996 Lô hit international fame with Né La Thiass (Gone in a Flash), which warned about sudden changes of destiny. With Senegal emerging from a tumultuous election, the most keenly contested in its history, that lyric is timely again, echoing sentiment about the country's tippy democratic traditions and life under...
...quiet collector of these cool conceptualists, and Puppy's original benefactor, is John Kaldor. With his relaxed slate-blue suit and glasses, Kaldor appears more like a gentleman academic or architect. Yet in the dozen years since Puppy, the former Sydney textile magnate has fashioned for himself one of the more influential roles in contemporary art-and one with more bite than bark. As founder of Kaldor Art Projects and reigning commissioner for Australia's representation at the Venice Biennale, Kaldor is part impresario, part philanthropist. "John's role is more precisely defined as someone who is the visionary," explains...