All across Minnesota, the quiet, decent people who believe in Good Government and Working Together to Resolve Differences are leaning forward in disbelief at the thought that the next Governor of their state might be THIS GREAT BIG HONKING BULLET-HEADED SHOVEL-FACED MUTHA WHO TALKS IN A STEROID GROWL AND DOESN'T STOP.
The roads in Colombo are eerily quiet and most people are just glued to the news.
Last night, the place was more quiet as people left after working out.
An eerie, expectant quiet surrounds the town centre as clusters of people line the roads.
During the guilty plea proceedings, the gallery was quiet, with some people sniffing and wiping away tears.
But as his baseball career enters his final months, Rivera has found pleasure in quiet moments with everyday people who perform the often thankless jobs of the baseball world.
The BBC's Jonathan Blake says the crimes have shocked people living in a relatively quiet part of north Tulsa, and that there is a fear that the killer may strike again.
"The idea really is to provide a beautiful, comfortable, quiet lounge where people can come if they'd like to and sit amongst the cats, " Ms Dyas told BBC News.
The killing of the border guards in central Kashgar occurred at around 8am, also a quiet time, since most people follow an unofficial local time two hours behind the Beijing hour on the clocks.
Local people described the family as quiet and respectable middle-class Catholics with no history of odd or criminal behaviour.
The Founders had a horror of direct democracy for this very reason, and the system they devised was meant specifically to calm the passions, quiet the mob and channel its energies, and create a space for sober decision making by people the voters had chosen to make decisions for them.
So some people claim to be puzzled by the quiet talks the easy-going president has started with the heads of the country's main political parties.
In the third terrorist attack in 18 months on Egypt 's Red Sea coast, three suicide-bombers attacked the quiet resort of Dahab, killing at least 24 people, most of them Egyptians.
Other crimes, that may be even more serious but are committed by those further up the income scale such as the quiet murder of dozens, possibly hundreds, of people by a middle-class doctor are dismissed as outlandish one-offs.
Even from several blocks away, I was beginning to see a growing throng of people gathered outside rare for the usually quiet, cobble-stoned streets of SoHo.
Outside the courthouse itself, police used tear gas to chase away people protesting against the ruling but the area became quiet after the court session ended.
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They would also like to thank people for respecting the attorney general's need for quiet rest as he continues to recover.
But for a century efforts to reform libel law thoroughly have foundered on a combination of lawyerly self-interest, bureaucratic timidity and a quiet belief among many lawmakers that the media is already too careless with other people's reputations (not least with politicians' good names).
The office seemed almost eerily quiet and untroubled, a room full of stylish people wearing headphones and instant-messaging one another.
Classical-music audiences, for instance, tend to be mostly quiet and strikingly attentive, but also a bit inhibited, perhaps because many of the people who come to concerts are afraid of clapping at the wrong time.
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Since most jobs involve an ad-hoc mix of tasks some of which require total concentration and no interruptions it's far better to give people the option of working in a communal environment OR working somewhere quiet.
Facebook has had a quiet experiment in democracy for the past few years, where if more than 7, 000 people leave a comment on a proposed policy amendment, it triggers a vote.
For people accustomed to the bustle of this "big small town, " the quiet was unsettling.
People who have worked with Cook at Apple describe him as quiet and confident, the peacekeeper at the conference room table.
Would a Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Xbox embedded on the rear of the front seat keep the kids quiet?
Despite the thousands on the streets of cities, a survey earlier this week had suggested many people were planning a quiet evening in.
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"I think the people of Hampshire are quietly proud of their Armed Forces but (a bit) too quiet, " said councillor Ken Thornber, leader of the county council.
There is no need to hike to the far edge of a rookery, but get away from the crowd of people who may or may not be as good as you are at being quiet, slow, low, patient, etc.
And while Muhammad Ali could not join us tonight, it is worth reflecting upon his remarkable contributions, as he's grown from an unmatched fighter in the ring to a man of quiet dignity and grace who continues to fight for what he believes -- and that includes the notion that people of all faiths holds things in common.
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But nothing came of that proposal, as evidenced by the most recent quiet period infraction by Salesforce.com (nyse: CRM - news - people ).
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