Word: earshot
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Sneider maintains that Harvard is not democratic. True. However, he ignores other private, non-democratic institutions, such as Princeton, Brown and Darthmouth, that included students in their searches. Sneider argues that such inclusion is unnecessary because, "It's hard to imagine how any one within earshot of Harvard Yard has not already heard" student opinion...
...article about the rally. He declines to report that Derek C. Bok left the scene 15 minutes before the rally began and ignores the fact that the majority of the search committee is not from the Boston area. Such admissions would reveal that the search committee is not within earshot...
...hard to imagine how anyone within earshot of Harvard Yard has not already heard the protests, seen the fliers, or read the campus media's constant examination of student concerns...
When Gerstein asked for an officer to take a report, Gerstein said, neither Murphy nor any other of the approximately 10 officers within earshot of the threat came forward...
That the supervisors caved in indicates that the accordion lobby is as powerful as the National Rifle Association. That is no surprise, since both organizations favor unregulated possession of lethal instruments. At least it can be said for the N.R.A. that its members practice accuracy out of earshot, deep in the woods. They also wear earplugs to deaden the sound...