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...listened to the box's country or classical selections. On some days, Pitman let Ray bang the keys of his piano. "That's it, sonny, that's it!" Pitman would cry, when Ray was on to something good. At 7, Charles enrolled in the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind in St. Augustine as a charity student and learned to read music in Braille. "In Braille music, you can only read so many bars at a time," he once told PEOPLE. "You can't play it and see it at the same time, so your memory and understanding expand...
...already turned a deaf ear to the Sudanese people,” Bilal said during the protest. “Where is the U.N.? What are they doing...
...calls for representation fell on largely deaf ears, he says, so when he was approached by the No Layoffs Campaign, a group of about 20 Cambridge-area activists and workers who had been trying to reform the union’s policy of closed negotiations since the late 1980s, he jumped at the chance to join them...
...Burma for another year. Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, a United Nations human-rights envoy to Burma, dismissed the convention as "a meaningless and undemocratic exercise" that will "[not] end Burma's virtual pariah status." But the generals, who have illegally ruled the country for more than 15 years, are largely deaf to international criticism. Indeed, they have ensured that Burmese state television devotes countless hours to covering the triumph of the convention. Many households have simply switched off their TVs. Faced with falling real incomes and daily power cuts, they have more immediate concerns than this deeply cynical political circus...
...investigators, Los Angeles International Airport (airport code LAX) and police in Hawaii. Later in the season we'll see "Revelations," a spooky looking eight-episode "limited series" about the end times that will try to ride the "Left Behind" apocalyptic craze - although in what may be a slightly tone-deaf way. The series focuses on characters who are working feverishly to head off Armageddon, which is a weird way to capitalize on the millennialism that fuels "Left Behind" and "The Passion of the Christ"; for true believers, after all, the end of the world - at least, the return of Jesus...