Word: quiets
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Before Ross found his voice as a volunteer, he was a silent killer. He primarily stalked the back roads of a wedge of Connecticut called the Quiet Corner, hustling his victims into the woods before he raped and strangled them. But when he settled into death row two decades ago, the Cornell graduate became a prolific writer. He published articles embracing his fate, including pious meditations like "It's Time for Me to Die" and "My Journey Towards the Light," everywhere from the National Catholic Reporter to Might magazine. Ross's private letters reveal a far more agitated soul--alternately...
...weeks ago, Reagan went to Kennedy's Virginia home to boost a fundraising dinner for the J.F.K. library. Ted took the President to his study and showed him nautical mementos, explaining how John was renewed by his contact with the sea. Did the President have a place of quiet where he could reinvigorate his spirit? asked Kennedy. The President told the story of how he had found his California ranch and how much he loved...
...similar lack of assertiveness was evident when Shevardnadze gave his maiden speech to the conferees. He read his 25-minute address woodenly and slowly, raising his eyes to his audience only four times. His tone was quiet and moderate, but in terms of content the speech could easily have been written by his unbending predecessor, Gromyko, now Soviet President. Pleading for a return to détente, Shevardnadze launched into a predictable litany of accusations against the U.S. for deploying intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe, for "violating" Strategic Arms Limitation treaties and for pushing ahead with the Strategic Defense...
...dueled the U.S.'s Sydney Maree, shaving .01 sec. off the 5,000-meter record with his 13:00.40. Finally, Cram and Coe, 28, came onstage with eleven others for the classic confrontation to determine who would reign among the world's milers. Many experts, including Cram in his quiet, pleasant way, felt that the outcome was virtually certain. One possible question was Cram's occasionally tender left calf, which had been tweaking him after the Nice race. But in the final days before Oslo, the leg felt comfortable and strong, and Cram seemed unworried about any possible reinjury...
...Saudi government has even raised the possibility of granting women the right to vote in the next elections. Shibley Telhami, a Middle East expert at the University of Maryland at College Park, thinks the Grand Mufti's statement on marriage could augur a trend. "If you start mobilizing the quiet majority by putting this on the agenda," he says, "society starts to change." --By Julie Rawe. Reported by Nadia Mustafa, Scott MacLeod and Amany Radwan