Word: louder
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...makers. Democratic candidate John Kerry and Labor Opposition leader Mark Latham are free traders at heart (who knows - President-elect Kerry and Prime Minister Latham may be congratulating each other come New Year's Day). But the anti-free-trade scaremongers and interest groups will be shouting louder this year than the champions of an almost-free trade agreement. It's just too tight to call...
Despite all this, the party hours extension will undoubtedly find its foes. Neighbors will worry that it will make things louder later, and the crochety-resident-tutor contingent will bemoan the added liberty. Yet after two weekends of extended party hours in six Houses, it looks as though the naysayers’ fears do not hold water. We hope that Gross will brush off such complaints and continue to recognize the importance of undergraduate social life by making this change permanent...
...normal level of complaints wasn’t high enough, tomorrow will be marked by an even louder than usual drone of lonely Harvard singles cursing their love lives and blaming these ivory walls for their dating shortcomings. But while Harvard might not be able to brag about its dating success, at least it can’t be blamed for trying. Over the years, students have never been short of possible solutions to the problem. With the same devotion they apply to resolving other pressing conflicts, many Crimson visionaries have initiated bold proposals—though with little success?...
...accommodated. I was one of the reporters watching from the back of the theater. (Maybe this actually was a dream assignment.) What struck us journalists that night was the noise that engulfed the Beatles as they trotted out onstage - intense, high-pitched, piercing. We agreed that it was louder, more frenzied, than Frank Sinatra's fans had ever been, or even Elvis Presley's. And it never let up: you could hardly hear the five songs the Beatles sang. Three nights later, when the Beatles played two concerts in Carnegie Hall, New York Times critic John S. Wilson reviewed...
...often, it seems that quiet dialogue is ultimately a tool for ignoring Tibet and hoping that the world will follow suit. The polite road may be to participate in dialogue, but when dialogue is a superficial concession used to skirt the issue, the quiet dialogue must become louder...