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...shrieks reverberating through Washington last week were considerably louder than the murmuring of some doomed oysters, that was because the victims are larger and more numerous and more sensitive to threats of pain. Congressional oratory turned to images of mayhem. "Today's cuts are like trimming your nails," said New York Democratic Congressman Charles Schumer. "What is coming will be like chopping off your hand." Pennsylvania Democrat William Gray, chairman of the House Budget Committee, spoke even more gorily to the New York Times of "the amputation of both arms in 1987," and Senator Gary Hart of Colorado predicted...
...Third Avenue, there are the lights of gas stations, garages and used-car lots: bulbs blaring in loops. The bars glow. No light whatever shows under the BQE, where the shush of cars grows louder with the rush hour, people passing over Sunset Park on their way home to other places. Tony and Ingrid live just east of Third, across from a car wash whose walls are covered with curlicues of graffiti. At this hour, Tony is on the job at the metal plant, and Ingrid has the two girls home from school...
...Yale football Captain Carmen Ilacqua, actions speak louder than words...
...stories told by the speakers at the letter-writing event on the steps of Widener were just as riveting as the film footage of Afghanistan's ongoing depopulation. But, again, actions speak louder than words. Fifty or so was the maximum number of people at the event at any given time, and the organizers hoped for 1000 letters, as a best-case scenario, by the end of the week...
Columbia's action spoke louder than the generally scrabbly turnouts on campuses for National Apartheid Protest Day. Despite a summer of violence in South Africa, student organizers were unable to duplicate last spring's mass demonstrations. Though about 2,000 gathered in Manhattan, Columbia's hometown, only a small group attended a teach-in on apartheid at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. At Connecticut's Wesleyan University, some 100 protesting students were arrested. Even the University of California, Berkeley, turned out only 1,000 protesters. A student leader blamed midterm exams for the lack of enthusiasm...