Word: quiets
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...surprisingly free of the nationalism and violence for which Palestinians are usually noticed. The relative freedom of expression in Ramallah has fueled a major revival, since last year, of the cultural capital of Palestine - and is transforming Palestinian art in the process. While most Palestinian towns remain as ghostly quiet as they were during the curfews of the intifadeh, Ramallah has a lively nightlife, new theaters, a cinema and a flourishing music scene. "When people come to Ramallah, they taste culture," says Munther Jawabreh, 29, an artist from a refugee camp near Hebron. "Instead of the Israeli occupation, they...
...Mosul, "didn't tell the American people how we're going to replicate that success in other parts of Iraq ... how many more teams of Americans, both military and civilian, need to go into these communities (and) what it will cost us." Most important was Reed's tone-quiet, humble, dispassionate, substantive...
...This concert is focusing more on the spirit behind Christmas. The songs are a little quieter and subdued but do get to that sort of peaceful, quiet, Christmas feel...
...life: a framed wedding picture, a Pilates pregnancy edition videocassette, a container of pregnancy nutrient supplements. The photographer follows her to work where she chats with a coworker, on a walk with her husband, in the car as she files her nails, and at the breakfast table.Nobody is quiet during the screening. Everybody is talking. There is laughter when the woman chatters with her husband about a teenager who was elected mayor. And students are always intermittently offering remarks: “I like that. That’s a cool shot.” When the light flickers...
...clandestine bases on European soil to imprison suspected terrorists for questioning, and transported those detainees through European airports. Rice's declaration-in what some see as a departure for U.S. policy-that U.S. treaty obligations prohibiting cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment extended to U.S. personnel "wherever they are" helped quiet some of those concerns. So, too, did her allowance, unusual for a Bush Administration member, that the U.S. may have made mistakes in the course of pursuing its war on terror. But the reports are putting pressure on some erstwhile allies. Germany's new foreign Minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier...