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...outside candidate. A petition to University administrators didn't help, the HRDC board's self-imposed silence to the campus media did nothing to persuade American Repertory Theatre (ART) officials of their willingness to compromise, pleas to Standing Committee on Dramatic Arts Chair Michael P. Shinagel fell on deaf ears. Symonds was gone, another casualty to the indifference to student theater shown by Harvard officials charged with promoting...
...quiet boy and good student." Pity for poor Karter, for he didn't exemplify the convenient image of a kid failed by the society--up all night watching slasher flicks after being abused by one or more members of his dysfunctional family while the system turned a deaf ear to his horrible problems. There was nothing to blame in Karter's mundane backgroud except for the fact that he was also skate-boarding when they handed out brains and souls. The uncolorful Karter is mentioned only once more in the article...
...SUNDAY, CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER JESSE JACKSON began a fast in support of HIV- infected Haitians wishing to immigrate to the U.S. He was quickly joined by Olden Polynice, the Haitian-born center for the Detroit Pistons basketball team. But the growls of their stomachs fell on deaf ears. On Thursday the Senate voted to prevent people infected with the AIDS virus from immigrating to the U.S. The prohibition had been a matter of policy; the Senate action is a step toward making it law. "It was a meanspirited vote," says Jackson...
...Every time we've talked to the federal and provincial governments, our words have fallen on deaf ears," insists George Rich, an Innu Nation vice president. Rich says he sniffed gas at 14 and went into alcohol rehabilitation after his common-law wife committed suicide at 16. Adds Katie Rich (no relation), the first woman chief of the five-person Innu band council: "Anything the government says no longer surprises me. It's got so I can't cry anymore...
...read public anger at Baird's actions as a sign that no one with employee-related problems is eligible for public office. Baird's case was a unique one: her lame attempts to align herself with working mothers by bemoaning the difficulty of finding good child care fell on deaf ears when it was revealed that she and her husband make over $600,000 a year and were paying their nanny less than six dollars an hour...