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...huge drums rather than audible signals or in the cafeteria where gossip and flirtation are no less hot for being silent--Gallaudet embodies a heady ideal: an oasis where the deaf person can shed the role of handicapped outsider and step into a cultural majority, where the tyranny of spoken speech is stripped away and, in the words of Provost Jane Fernandes, "the dreams open...
...great genius of deaf activism over the past half-century has been to develop the idea that rather than a disability, deafness--especially among ASL speakers--can constitute a separate culture as rich as any based on a spoken language. Nobody who spends more than a day or two at Gallaudet would debate that assertion. Nor would anybody doubt that the community enjoys a rare, fond solidarity, which may be traceable to the fact that many deaf people spend their first decade or two in an ocean of hearing people, isolated from others like themselves. Says freshman Stephen Farias: "When...
...Because, make no mistake, the man was acting. Unlike his braying, spluttering character, O'Connor was born in the Bronx but his real voice was no Bronx cheer; he was soft-spoken and thoughtful and said that he never heard Archie Bunkerisms growing up in his well-off childhood home. An accomplished journeyman stage and film actor, O'Connor made Archie into a character - dry and operatic, hateful and touching - where a cartoon would have sufficed. It would have been easy to make Archie a caricature (and he was one) or a straw man (he was that too). It would...
...most successful and hard-working ethnic-Albanian officers in the Macedonian air force, earlier this month he suddenly found himself handcuffed to a table in a dingy police station with his T-shirt looped over his head to hide the identities of his interrogators. The balding, soft -spoken native of the capital, Skopje, was being grilled by police and later by his own comrades about an alleged (and, Bela says, non- existent) connection with the ethnic-Albanian rebels fighting in the hills overlooking the city...
...Andrew Purvis: No, right now it's mostly hypothetical. The alliance has spoken of sending in 3,000 troops (drawn from European armies), but only once two major obstacles have been cleared. The first is that the exceedingly diverse parties in Macedonia's coalition government must agree on a set of legislative and constitutional changes to address the grievances of the country's ethnic Albanians, and the second is that the rebel forces must agree to lay down their weapons in exchange for those political changes...