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Then the fun began. As the winners were announced, each was presented with a bulky medallion that emitted shrill screams when turned...
There are some flaws. Rolling Stone magazine's premier essayist has spliced together discrete essays, making the book more a collection of pieces than a unified whole. At times he grows as shrill as those he skewers. Nonetheless, O'Rourke manages to ask all the explosive questions -- Why are taxes so high? Why doesn't government work? How did things get so bad? -- that tap into the deep vein of discontent running through America today. Parliament of Whores may not spark a revolution, but it is one of the few books on civic affairs worth reading from cover to cover...
...Durban gathering turns into a factional face-off, the hard-liners will probably come out on top. Growing increasingly shrill, the A.N.C. issued demands last April that De Klerk was certain to refuse, such as the firing of Defense Minister Magnus Malan and Law and Order Minister Adriaan Vlok. Though himself a moderate and the movement's peacemaker, Mandela last week sided with hard-liners by flatly declaring as nonnegotiable the A.N.C.'s requirement that an elected constituent assembly, rather than leaders of political parties, draw up a new constitution...
...allay immediate student fears, the police added regular walking patrols in the Yard, river and quad areas. Also, Johnson says, "we now have two full-time drivers on the escort service." Shrill alarms have been made available for $6 at Police headquarters, University Hall and Radcliffe Yard...
...shrill sound emitted by the sirens is "ear busting," and can cause permanent deafness, Towne said, so they should not be used playfully...