Pope Benedict will surely retire quietly to a Benedictine monastery to keep writing, the life he imagined for himself before his election.

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Many students who volunteered their time to keep the massive event from devolving into chaos Wednesday quietly expressed hope that a trend was developing, and that the Atlantic Coast Conference school would become a regular election-year stopping point for presidential hopefuls.

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Could the explanation be that Macedonia has quietly cut a deal with Slobodan Milosevic to keep most Kosovars away from its borders?

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Consumer watchdogs were slow to grasp the implications of the Abacus deal and of the fact that, in its wake, DoubleClick had quietly dropped from its website its pledge to keep users' data completely anonymous.

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With no regulator to keep them in check, they could easily establish a tight oligopoly, then quietly start to fleece consumers once again.

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The boys had clearly made a deal that went like this: We'll "release" you as sponsors, you'll keep your mouths shut, and when all this woman stuff blows over you can quietly come back.

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When the Senate was debating a different measure earlier in the year, he quietly prevented Moran from gaining a vote on a stand-alone proposal to keep the towers open.

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