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However, four of these vendors ventured nervously into a police precinct at 4 a.m. on July 19 with a three-page letter that hinted at the silent netherworld they inhabited. Following them to two houses in Queens, police discovered 57 Mexicans, most of them deaf-mute illegal immigrants, crammed into two top-floor apartments. Alternately signing and writing, the shabbily dressed immigrants--among them pregnant women and children and infants--described themselves as exploited laborers held captive by the Paolettis, a Mexican family whose deaf members had enticed them with promises of a sweeter life, then confiscated their identity documents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUFFERING IN SILENCE | 8/4/1997 | See Source »

Harvard rendered that statistic mute at 27:09, when Wilmot scored to give the Crimson its first lead of the season. Wilmot added another goal and senior John Vrionis and junior Tom McLaughlin, playing his first year at forward after making the switch from defense, also scored against the Lions...

Author: By Richard B. Tenorio, | Title: Men's Soccer Blasts Into NCAAs | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...unite, not divide, and with the exception of our legal holidays it would most likely draw out a larger portion of the American populous than any other day on the calendar. Black, white, male, female. All divisions would become mute if only for 24 hours as workers joined hands against the one fissure with which all must cope, the gap that separates worker from capitalist. Sovietism is dead; this Thursday, celebrate this May Day without fear. Your barbecues and beer will still be there in September...

Author: By Gabriel B. Eber, | Title: Bring Back the May Pole | 4/26/1997 | See Source »

...roommates and I had sallied for a day or two of our brief intersession. Kevin was charged with the 1:15 group lesson for Skill 8 last Friday at the Ludlow, Vt. ski site. I was one of two members of the group, the other being a somewhat mute 13 year-old who, like myself, was supposedly proficient in parallel turning and sought to bridge the chasm between the intermediate blue squares and the advanced black diamonds...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: Slopes and Ladders | 1/30/1997 | See Source »

...gift for setting up these situations which illustrate visually the key themes of the film. Gregoire is an outsider at court, but an insider at the Doctor's country mansion. One scene shows him learning to dance in the doctor's parlor with Mathilde, as young Paul, a deaf-mute of the Doctor's household, mimicks them, dancing alone in the field outside. Or the masquerade scene, where Gregoire is barefaced, ringed by the towering wigs and vulture-like beaks of the masqueraders, the sole non-player...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sex, Lies and Aristocrats at Versailles | 12/12/1996 | See Source »

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