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...DEAF OASIS...
...LaBute is the genial Mormon, 38, who raises critics' spirits and audiences' hackles with dramatic essays in cruelty. His 1997 movie In the Company of Men had a suavely evil fellow concoct a scheme to seduce and then abandon an innocent deaf woman. "Let's do it," he says to a pal. "Let's hurt somebody." In Your Friends and Neighbors, six yuppies snipe at each other in bed and on every other battlefield. In Bash: Latterday Plays, which appeared off-Broadway and, last year, at the Almeida, nice people confess the most dreadful crimes, in tones so numb they...
...lost Jeffords? It will be a source of endless debate whether a tone-deaf Bush White House failed to hear Jeffords and his concerns, or whether Jeffords was looking for an excuse to bail out of a party he could no longer stand behind, and whether he?ll use his newfound fame to gain national prominence as a politician. (His new role is expected to include the chairmanship of the Committee on the Environment and Public Works...
Zachary Johnson has a familiar complaint about his school: the cafeteria food stinks. In most places, such gripes fall upon deaf ears. But Zachary, 13, attends the Accelerated School in South Central Los Angeles, where the teachers are determined to make school both challenging and attractive. Says Zachary, who helped persuade administrators to add a salad bar: "The teachers actually listen to you, and you don't find that in other schools around here...
...aides to President Bush didn't see a copy of Cheney's speech until the day he delivered it - a lapse in coordination that led some West Wing occupants to question whether the Vice President's staff was either tone deaf or worse when it came to handling public relations on this sensitive issue. Senior officials in the White House and some cabinet agencies complain that Cheney's team played into, rather than diminished, fears that the plan would be too heavily tilted to oil and gas interests. "The President and Vice President just have different styles," concedes one senior...