They wanted to keep the case quiet, of course.
Second, while he had previously tried to keep the case quiet, in order to give M.I.T. a chance to reverse its stance without embarrassment, now he and others recognized that this strategy had failed.
After trying to keep the case quiet for months, the United States delayed a decision on the request by Zhang Hongbao, the founder of a meditative discipline popularly known as Zhong Gong, at a court hearing in Guam on Friday.
Earlier this month, United States officials said they had not informed China of Mr. Zhang's whereabouts, hoping to keep the case quiet until the Boston extradition request had been resolved.
A video of Mr. Lei having sex with an 18-year-old had been in the possession of the Chongqing police, who had investigated the blackmail ring but had not moved to prosecute anyone because city officials kept the case quiet, the state news media reported.
But they decided to take a second look after biosafety activist Edward Hammond obtained documents showing that a TAMU student had been exposed to the brucella bacteria, a select agent, in 2006, and that the school had kept the case quiet for a year, prompting CDC to call a halt to TAMU's research on select agents (ScienceNOW, 2 July).
In black, the FitFolio case quiets the Nook Tablet's multi-tonal coloring.
It's still quite haunted, though; my main impression, visiting in the middle of a summer day with the museum packed with tourists, was how private the space was, the narrow corridor of glass cases, the quiet mausoleum feel of the room.
(In which case, be quiet because you're getting off easy).
But the most persuasive case for quiet cars comes from Amtrak, where they have been in service for more than two years.
