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DIED. MEHDI BAZARGAN, 87, former Prime Minister of Iran; in Zurich. Originally an engineering professor, the soft-spoken Bazargan was imprisoned for his human-rights activism during the reign of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, making Bazargan a natural choice for Prime Minister of the provisional government formed after the Shah fled in 1979. But Bazargan's relationship with the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's Revolutionary Council soon deteriorated into a bitter power struggle, culminating in his resignation just nine months later...
Drew Bledsoe--the true golden boy, everybody's All-American. So he gets in trouble with his Dad (played by Bill Parcells) every so often....his soft-spoken charms eventually dazzle on their own, without the need for a Willie Joe Namath's bumbling brashness...
Rodriguez Orejuela is a soft-spoken 56-year-old who complains of migraines and an expanding waistline. Since the bloody demise of Pablo Escobar of the competing Medellin cartel last year, Gilberto, in partnership with his brother Miguel and other members of the Cali cartel, has achieved a virtual monopoly on the world cocaine trade. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration estimates that along with smaller groups, Rodriguez exports 700 tons of the drug annually. Thus he is a major contributor to America's drug plague and its attendant tragedies: the crack babies, the drive-by deaths, the myriad other lives...
...part of American musical culture is untouched by Joplin's influence. Stride piano, boogie-woogie, Dixieland, Big Band swing, blues, soul and rock 'n' roll -- to some degree, all these forms were adumbrated in Joplin's works. But Joplin's achievement transcends pop music; indeed, the soft-spoken, neatly dressed whorehouse pianist was a master melodist who would rightly be called an American Schubert...
...best things Brack did was bring Don Logan, then the CEO of our Southern Progress subsidiary in Alabama, to New York as president and chief operating officer of Time Inc. in 1992. A mathematician by training, the burly, soft-spoken Logan quickly proved a decisive and imaginative partner as the two men together set about positioning Time Inc. for future growth in both print and multimedia in the electronic...