Word: quiets
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...spotted at the scenes of prisoner transfers wearing black ski masks - a sure sign to onlookers that something odd was happening. Six weeks after the 9/11 attacks, an employee at Karachi International Airport told a Pakistani reporter that a U.S.private jet had arrived to collect a prisoner in a quiet corner of the facility, and was "so mysterious that all persons involved in the operation, including U.S. troops [sic], were wearing masks...
...Correa denies suggestions that the oil-rich Chavez is helping to fund his campaign, and Chavez, since watching his outspoken support of the leftist candidates in Peru and Mexico backfire, has been uncharacteristically quiet about Ecuador. But analysts like Shifter notes that Correa, who recently visited Chavez, feels confident he can follow the Venezuelan's lead...
Involving your tutor will solve the problem in most cases, especially if he or she has been disturbed by the partying as well. Official quiet hours begin after 11pm on weeknights and 2am on weekends, and tutors are responsible for enforcing these rules—they’ll often follow up with senior staff in the house if they can’t resolve the issue themselves. Tutors are generally approachable and chill, and most are quite eager to be acknowledged by you in the dining hall. Don’t worry about annoying them with your requests; there?...
...used to fielding noise complaints and will likely be more intimidating than a lowly tutor (read: they’re armed). Keep in mind that this should be a last resort tactic, and it should only be used when the noise is truly disruptive and occurring after quiet hours. Call the cops on someone you can hear snoring through a fire door, and you deserve that “Resident Psycho” moniker that you’ll be stuck with for the rest of the year...
...Jack E. Fishburn ’08 seems possessed of a certain soft-voiced, secretive tendency. It’s only on our way out of Adams Dining Hall that the English and American Literature and Languages concentrator and Adams resident deigns to mention, ever so quietly, that he “sort of went to Eton.” Or that one of his motivations for attending a college outside his native Britain was the fact that he’s “quite pro-American, really, but I try to keep it quiet here because otherwise people...