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...military parlance). In a voice quavering with suppressed (or feigned) emotion, he took the Fifth Amendment, making his refusal to cooperate somehow seem heroic. "Despite my very strong desire to provide Congress with my recollection of the facts pertaining to this matter, counsel has advised me that I should avail myself of the protections provided by that same Constitution that I have fought to support and defend." Democrat Thomas Lantos pledged to contribute to an Ollie North defense fund being set up by Annapolis classmates, and Republican Robert Dornan, in praise of North's patriotism, paraphrased a rollicking Rudyard Kipling...
Buswell is unaccustomed to choral singing, and he drowns out everybody else. A few singers simply stop in the middle of a hymn, overwhelmed. Barber glares. Privately, he tells Buswell that he is even louder than the organ -- to no avail. Finally, at a Sunday rehearsal, Barber dresses Buswell down: "Look, your pianissimo is not our pianissimo. Turn it way down." In the hallway afterward, Buswell, abashed, tells the other singers, "I guess I really blew it in there...
...gone through all the official channels to no avail. So I told Walter about my problem, and an instant later he pulls out a wad of yard passes for the event," Koocher remembers. " `You don't go through the bureaucracy,' he says, `You get them staight from the printer...
...explicitly stated in the new committee's charter. Most important there must be a clear procedure for determining which cases it will hear. Establishing an appeals body that will not artificially distinguish between political and "apolitical" cases is all well and good. It will be to no avail, however, if the faculty majority on the committee can refuse to hear cases. Saying, as the University has suggested, that the committee will make such decisions according to an evolving body of common law is to say nothing...
...marching miners, who were joined by hundreds of people from the stands. The ministers leading the service ignored the disturbance and went on with their prayers until the brief ceremony was over. At that point demonstrators charged the refreshment tables and knocked over the flower-draped pulpit. To no avail, a union steward shouted, "Comrades, stop! Please, comrades...