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...major complaints voiced by students were that the lights are overly bright, causing eyestrain when reading, and that they hum annoyingly...
Aquino also believed that his return and subsequent arrest would win hum an audience with Marcos and that such an audience would bring about an end to martial law according to scholars. "Aquino became convinced that Marcos done could return the country to democracy Aquino wanted to convince Marcos that it was his page up history to preside over the return to democracy." Pauker says. He added that Aquino felt that if the generals were to take charge they would be less willing than Marcos to give up their power for more democratic rule...
...same corner of the same prefecture. Perhaps each culture is wistful for the virtues and attractions of the other. Japan has, in any case, none of that American sense of immense, liberating, heartbreaking distances; Japan is put together like a watchwork, with cunning economy. The small, busy factories hum along flush against the rice fields, with apartment buildings jammed up against the other side. Japan is a very intimate country, with all of the rules and dangers of intimacy. It has been said that the Japanese have cultivated their silences and intuitive communication because they are a people with small...
...occasion Zaremba will launch into some sort of diatribe about the state of America. This is the Fleshtones at their worst, the tepid liberalism of 1981's "R-I-G-T-S"--off Roman Gods--or Hexbreaker's "New Scene": "Phony society, we reject your false values." Ho hum. "Get off my back. Let me do what I wanna do." So what...
Welcome to the world of the computer hacker. As midnight wears on to 3 a.m. and then 6 a.m., the hum of conversation dies and Wean Hall becomes very quiet. But the lights burn on, the soft-drink machine on the third floor continues to dispense 16-oz. bottles, and nocturnal computerniks still sprawl before green screens, clack-clacking their instructions into the memory of a DEC-20 system...