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When we meet him, C.S. Lewis (Anthony Hopkins) is giving rather smug lectures about the blessed necessity for suffering in our life: "Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world," he happily informs his listeners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And the Sorrows of Joy | 12/27/1993 | See Source »

...first-year, who asked not to be identified, was barely whispering the songs. "I'm kind of tone deaf," he said...

Author: By Amanda C. Pustilnik, | Title: Band Performs X-Mas Songs | 12/20/1993 | See Source »

...stop a Venezuelan official from running drugs to the U.S. CIA officials then tried to persuade the DEA to disavow Bonners remarks, but current DEA officials agree with him. The CIA pleaded that Congress might cut funding for the CIA's covert counternarcotics program, but this argument fell on deaf ears; where covert narcotics operations are concerned, the DEA calls the CIA "amateurs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Informed Sources: Dec. 6, 1993 | 12/6/1993 | See Source »

...state. She and a friend fished, hunted and foraged to feed themselves. Living that way "makes you very alert and aware of everything around you, from tree branches and wild mushrooms to animal tracks," Proulx says. "It's excellent training for the eye. Most of us stagger around deaf and blind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: True (As in Proulx) Grit Wins | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

...goal, according to a release, is "to provide deaf and hard-of-hearing children and adults with opportunities to compete with their peers as well as the larger society of athletes...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs, | Title: Miller Awarded Deaf Athlete Of the Year for Second Time | 11/16/1993 | See Source »

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