Word: spokenness
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...other part is his manner. Before Congress, at subsequent pro-reform rallies around the country, and in the many television interviews Potter grants, he plays the role of the soft-spoken dad, calmly laying out his indictment of the for-profit insurance industry with a slight Tennessee twang, his gray hair buzzed and a pair of wire-rimmed glasses perched on his nose. He isn't prone to hyperbole and, despite his having become a whistle-blower to "make amends" for the wrong he feels he did as a health-insurance executive, Potter is eerily calm, an island of serenity...
...said, 'Yes, I think I am.' He had a little bit of trepidation." Goldstein helped connect Potter with Democratic Senator Jay Rockefeller, who chairs the committee before which Potter ultimately appeared. Since then, "his activism has been nothing short of astonishing," says Goldstein. "He's a soft-spoken, serious man and has tremendous credibility...
...problem, though, is that the differences in the raw data went away once Barker and Miller controlled for other variables - like what language was spoken at home and whether a parent had lost...
...done by the Taliban or other group," says Askari-Rizvi. "What is clear is that it is an attack on a religious leader who has been very critical of the Taliban's use of violence, which seems to be the reason for the attack." Moderate religious leaders who have spoken out against the Taliban's brutality have been repeatedly targeted in recent months. In June, a suicide bomber killed Sarfraz Naeemi, who belonged to a sufi strain of Islam, in his mosque office in Lahore...
...outspoken opinions. "[Kazmi] has been at the forefront of our government attempt to unify all the senior most Muslim leaders of this country who are all opposed to the militant viewpoint on Islam," says presidential spokesperson Farahnaz Ispahani. "He has been out there, he is a mild and soft-spoken man who has spoken out publicly about the sufi Islam that is the true Islam of Pakistan...