Word: silentes
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...howling winds. As I grew older, I learned that the 110-story buildings were specifically designed to sway so that they would not blow over. Feeling slightly more at ease, I would imagine the pair performing a quiet dance that I watched from a distance in a silent meditation...
...speech was simple, somber and brief. It made no news, announced no action; it sought simply to reassure and encourage. It began for viewers with 10 seconds of a silent Bush who had not been told the cameras were rolling. But it put the president of the United States back at his desk at the Oval Office after a day on the move. The string of catastrophes that led from the nation?s financial heart in New York to its military one at the Pentagon led a wary Bush from an education event in Florida to military bases in Louisiana...
...first time, the train became gravely silent. The woman with the dark sunglasses and Gucci bag continued to weep quietly...
...said Tuesday afteroon that markets would not reopen Wednesday, and announcements about future plans would be made then. But most guessing has it that the pulse of Wall Street could be silent for at least the rest of the week. Damage to the enormous technical apparatus that makes everyday financial trading possible - including commodities markets housed in the buildings themselves - must be assessed and repaired, and the human cost of this tragedy on the business of business can hardly be underestimated...
...higher profile, which by the zero-sum measurements of Washington implies a lower one for Powell. She has expanded her original role as "traffic cop" to include public explanations of policy, like her speech at the National Press Club two months ago, while great communicator Powell has been strangely silent. Rice, not Powell, went to Moscow to jawbone Russian President Vladimir Putin into dropping the 1972 ABM treaty that is blocking Bush's missile-defense plans...