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...when the game begins later that day, Crocker grips the arena net in rapt attention. If you close your eyes and simply listen, you can get a good idea of what’s happening in the polo match: the light pattering of pony feet as they scamper around a throw-in, the thunderous stampeding down the field when everyone is chasing a ball that’s strayed far ahead, or the clanking of mallets and buckling of side boards against horse flesh when the ball falls into the corners...
...economically stratified than Newton. Parent Sarah G. Bell said she believes Young is a “sophisticated” and “sensitive” individual whose extensive experience with budgets was especially appealing. “He has articulated that he’s going to listen for quite a while and learn, which I think is a critical piece of any outsider’s ability to succeed in Cambridge,” she said. But other community members said they were displeased with the school committee’s choice. “I watched...
...Smoot-Hawley Tariff seems to imply it was part of F.D.R.'s New Deal. Smoot and Hawley were Republicans, and the act that bears their names was passed in 1930, during the Hoover Administration. If Gingrich can't get his facts straight about the last century, why should we listen to his suggestions for this one? Lee Poole, PHOENIX...
...Obama, for his part, seems to recognize that economic power has been dispersed and that his audiences are in no mood to be told how to behave by any American President, however popular on a personal level he may be. In London, Obama said he had come "to listen, not to lecture." More startling, he told his audience that the U.S. was at the G-20 "as a peer" of other nations...
...What do you listen to on your MP3 player? Katie Hires, BETHEL, CONN...