As Congress dallies over whether to raise the debt ceiling, Mr. Geithner's repeated and forceful assurances that Washington understands the ceiling must be raised, and his unequivocal commitment that it will indeed be raised, have helped to preserve calm among investors.
Still, administration officials said they believe that Mr. Assad's death gives the Syrian government an even greater incentive to preserve calm and stability on the Israeli-Lebanese border and to discourage attacks on Israel through proxies as a pressure tactic designed to extract concessions from Israel.
General Rikhye, then commander of the United Nations Emergency Force, was asked by the Egyptians to withdraw from the buffer zone where, for a while, UN peacekeepers had been preserving calm.
The pair preserve their calm with a 30-minute commute to their new "Zen house," situated on a bluff over the Pacific Ocean at Stinson Beach.
"It is time to regain and preserve our calm, and not allow our enemies to misuse it," he told reporters, referring to the nationwide violence.
But a senior Palestinian official in Ramallah, Saeb Erekat, condemned Israel's military actions as "absolutely unacceptable and uncalled for" and said they were undermining Palestinian efforts to preserve the peace process and maintain calm.
We call on all Afghan leaders to maintain calm in order to preserve the gains of the last decade and maintain the trust of the Afghan people," Kerry said in a late Monday statement.
Nervousness within Germany, where record-low unemployment and borrowing rates have preserved a calm at the eye of the financial storm, has also begun to grow.
It will be difficult but not impossible to conclude a negotiated understanding that holds the killers accountable and sends a strong message to anyone contemplating political murder in the future, while also preserving the calm that now prevails in Lebanon.
As Nicholas Kulish wrote from Berlin on Monday: "Nervousness within Germany, where record-low unemployment and borrowing rates have preserved a calm at the eye of the financial storm, has also begun to grow".
The Paralympics are under way in Beijing and do not end until September 17th, so the authorities are still edgy.Elsewhere, however, there are signs that officials are beginning to turn their attention to problems they had shunted aside for the sake of preserving Olympic calm.
