Word: quiets
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...Mozart 250th Anniversary Celebration” Friday, Feb. 24 at 8:00 P.M. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222, $8 regular / $6 students. On a quiet street in Salzburg there stands an unassuming apartment building painted sunshine yellow. Out front, hordes of tourists from all corners of the earth eat ice cream, snap photos, and wander about. The scene is puzzling at first, until one notices the enormous letters declaring Mozarts Geburtshaus (“Mozart’s Birthplace”) in sparkling gold. On January 27, 1756, Mozart—whom his father modestly...
...stem this erosion in public trust. But the government's tendency to deal behind closed doors with all security matters is only fueling the problem. Former Senator Warren Rudman, who co-chaired the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century, predicts "there will be hell to pay" when the quiet decisions to postpone the response to known vulnerabilities become public knowledge in the aftermath of the next attack. Americans will be rightfully enraged to learn that senior officials were aware of the threat but had concluded that putting adequate safeguards in place to protect their citizens was too difficult...
...those of us watching, this year's Oscar crop is a quiet bunch: very serious and not terribly popular. The absence of a pure audience smash is an X factor that adds to the mystery, the thrill of the gamble. And if you haven't seen all the films, don't worry. We have, and to help guide you through the awards, we're handicapping the races. How did we make our picks? From conversations with Academy insiders and nominees, from our experience of Oscars past and, well, from tea leaves. But use these picks for your Oscar pool...
Bush and Cheney had a quiet talk. According to a Republican official, the President told Cheney how much he too loved Whittington. He acknowledged what a crushing experience it must have been to see Whittington fall after Cheney pulled the trigger on a bird, failing to see his friend nearby. But it was time to defuse the furor that followed. Whittington was being blamed for the accident, and Cheney knew that White House spokesman Scott McClellan was getting barbecued by a White House press corps insistent on knowing why it took almost a full day to make the shooting public...
...didn’t take long for him to realize that he couldn’t play sports forever. “I wasn’t depressed,” he recalls. “It was closer to what Thoreau says, that most men live lives of quiet desperation. I was okay, but okay wasn’t enough. It wasn’t enough for squash and it wasn’t enough for my subjective well-being...