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...Harvard girls think they’re the shit and she’s definitely just waiting around for some law school student to swipe her off her feet one night at Om.” “But she knows me,” his soft-spoken and probably much less alt friend Ben J. Gleeson ’10 typically adds, “We’ve known each other since our freshman seminar.” (He often adds a few more mumbled comments that I just can’t quite make...
...Even from self-imposed exile overseas, Thaksin casts a long shadow. Current Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat may be a soft-spoken judicial expert, but he also happens to be Thaksin's former brother-in-law. Since August, the PAD has besieged Somchai's offices, forcing him to set up a makeshift administration headquarters in the VIP lounge of Bangkok's old airfield. On Nov. 24, the PAD upped the ante, shutting down Thailand's parliament and later overwhelming the old air terminal. Somchai's spokespeople have assured the public that policy-making is going on from a "secret location...
...He’s a very modest guy; he is reserved and soft spoken,” she says. “I’ve never heard anyone say anything—even just a tiny bit edged—about...
...speeches have one redeeming quality: they're short. After the al-Hais brothers have spoken, all that's required of the other speakers is to agree as quickly as possible. Then it's back to the singing and dancing, and now some of the sheiks are coaxed to join in. A poet, clad incongruously in leather jacket and trousers, loudly declaims the virtues of patriotism and warns against those who would seek to hurt Iraq. Again, there are knowing smirks all around: he's talking, of course, about...
...part, Geithner has shown a solid mix of composure and creativity throughout. In testimony on Capitol Hill and in public statements he comes across as levelheaded and even soft-spoken. Says John Sexton, the president of New York University, who previously chaired the committee that picked Geithner for the New York Fed job: "I've been in conversations with Tim on critically important and time-sensitive issues, crises, and I've been struck by his ability to stay calm...