Why in quiet towns such as Binghamton?
When crimes like this happen in relatively small, otherwise quiet towns, they resonate deeply.
HAL BECKOFF is that rare thing in the quiet towns of Westchester: a prophet.
These are not quiet and domestic dramas, although they may be set in quiet towns.
Their efforts tend to be hidden, down dirt roads on the edge of quiet towns, and largely ignored.
For good or for bad, Mary made the world a bigger, stranger place by bringing her shattering chaos to those quiet streets in those quiet towns on those quiet days.
Then I headed north and west to Malfa and Leni, less to look at these quiet towns than to enjoy the wonderfully lush, vine-lined route that passes dramatically between Salina's two cones.
This journey can easily be done in seven days and is for all those adventurous ski tourists who prefer the backcountry of small, quiet towns to packed gondolas in identikit alpine resorts.
Route 6A leads you to Route 6 just north of Orleans, where the road heads up the narrow forearm that is the Outer Cape, through the quiet towns of Eastham, Wellfleet and Truro.
But Fatah is largely unreformed, Mr. Abbas is reported by those close to him to be tired of the pressures of the job and not respected by many in Fatah, and the Palestinian security forces, even they admit, are still too weak to take responsibility over even quiet towns like Jericho from the Israelis.
When the Schaghticokes (pronounced SKAT-a-cokes) won federal recognition from the Bureau of Indian Affairs last month, residents of the quiet towns of northwestern Connecticut began having visions of traffic jams, bulldozers and backhoes and, most of all, of a casino.
