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...through it, we instead have Mr. Ridge. The Homeland Security Secretary, Tom Ridge, likewise is a soft-spoken Pennsylvanian trying to be reassuring yet realistic. He has not had an easy time of it. During last month's orange alert, the fatalistic talk about contingency plans and three days' supplies of water hinted at a message no one would tell Americans plainly: we believe a terrible thing is coming, and we will not be able to stop it. Ridge had a basically Rogersian task--getting Americans to accept a terrible eventuality that they could not prevent. So Homeland Security offered...
These are not the people who flooded streets around the world recently to protest, nor those who brandished American flags at the Daytona 500. But their soft-spoken and almost reluctant misgivings--the kind that many other Americans expressed in an extensive new TIME/CNN poll--show how unsettled the country is by being asked to wage a kind of war it has never fought before, one launched against a country that has yet to attack the U.S. Such a war requires a new way of thinking about ourselves and poses a question that millions of Americans are now asking...
Considering that the cable-TV industry is just emerging from an advertising slump and that only a few hundred thousand cable viewers tune in to HDTV, it's a risky bet. But it's the kind that Hendricks has always relished making. A laid-back, soft-spoken Southerner who first became interested in documentaries when ordering them for his professors at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, Hendricks "is a schoolteacher at heart," says John Malone, chairman of Liberty Media, a principal shareholder of Discovery, along with Cox Communications and Advance/Newhouse Communications. "Like Ted Turner," Malone says, "Hendricks...
Craig Newmark runs his empire from the first-floor parlor of a tidy Victorian-style flat in San Francisco's cozy Cole Valley neighborhood. "I spent all morning fighting evil," says the soft-spoken computer programmer, who founded a modest electronic mailing list for local San Francisco events in 1995 that has spread to 17 other cities, from Phoenix, Ariz., to Boston, and evolved into a virtual community drawing more than a million visitors a month. Through its online classified ads, racy personals and raucous discussion groups, Craig's List craigslist.org has become the best one-stop-shopping place...
...position to make a difference as the country's Vice Premier. As everybody sipped green tea in a meeting room at Zhongnanhai, the Beijing leadership compound, Wen listened politely to their pitch for streamlining the investment-approval process. The businessmen leaned closer to hear Wen's soft-spoken answer. "He gave the usual bureaucratic response," says one participant, who notes that 18 months later nothing has been done. "He said China is a big country with big problems and blah blah. It didn't inspire confidence...