Word: quiets
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...That quiet admission may have been the most damning one yet in the unfolding scandal surrounding Florida Congressman Mark Foley: holding on to power has become not just the means but also the end for the onetime reformers who in 1994 unseated a calcified and corrupted Democratic majority. Washington scandals, it seems, have been following a Moore's law of their own, coming at a faster clip every time there is a shift in control. It took 40 years for the House Democrats to exhaust their goodwill. It may take only 12 years for the Republicans to get there...
...Biggest Hassle - High-ranking visitors. More disruptive to work than a rocket attack. VIPs demand briefs and "battlefield" tours (we take them to quiet sections of Fallujah, which is plenty scary for them). Our briefs and commentary seem to have no effect on their preconceived notions of what's going on in Iraq. Their trips allow them to say that they've been to Fallujah, which gives them an unfortunate degree of credibility in perpetuating their fantasies about the insurgency here...
...signs such as "Don't waste paper" and "I will not make a sign," the six Penn students marched through campus and generally left everyone "befuddled," the Daily Pennsylvanian reports. And as if things couldn't get more absurd, there's this: Raviv said the group was told to quiet down as they walked over the Compass, where Sociology professor Samuel Preston was delivering a 60-second lecture as part of a series organized by the School of Arts and Sciences.What? Where's the story on that? But don't worry, the Columbia protest had its moments of absurdity...
...story, however, revolves around leadership. A man much smarter and more eloquent than me, Vaclav Havel, once noted that the Soviet-backed communist systems were able to endure as long as they did because they essentially bought the acquiescence of the population by mortgaging the future; they kept citizens quiet in the present but the system of doing so could not possibly endure. While not morally comparable to communist dictatorships, even a poorly run democracy such as Hungary is vastly preferable to a well run party-state, it seems that nearly the same process is currently underway in many...
...testament to Frears’ skills as a director that the narrative can be quiet at times, without losing the viewer’s interest. Frears’ most direct preparations for this film are his “Dirty Pretty Things” and “Dangerous Liaisons...