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...there are strains. Despite Franklin's repeated entreaties, she refuses to join him overseas, perhaps as wary of hobnobbing with his highly placed friends as of ocean voyages. During his absences, she acts as postmistress, oversees the building of a larger house and turns a deaf ear to attacks by Franklin's political rivals. When Stamp Act rioters threaten her house, Deborah and her brother face them...
...denies that horrible things happened to Casa Pia kids. Several senior staff have been sacked in recent months, but the new director, Catalina Pestana, told parliament that there may still be pedophiles in the Casa Pia system. Officials estimate that more than 100 boys and girls, some of them deaf and mute, may have been sexually abused. The government has promised to let Pestana take a broom to Casa Pia. Doing so would help Prime Minister José Manuel Dur?o Barroso, whose Social Democratic Party ousted the Socialists in March last year, make good on his vow to bring life...
...FRANK SINATRA'S valet. And they were very good years. But they're over, and now he's spilling his guts in a new book, Mr. S. The highlights? Sinatra's affair with then underage Natalie Wood; third wife Mia Farrow's annoying him by talking to her deaf cat Malcolm in sign language; J.F.K.'s snorting coke with Peter Lawford; and the Chairman's donning special underwear--"a cross between a panty girdle and a jock strap"--to restrain his massive, uh, endowment. Guess there's such a thing as being too Frank...
...Tony Blair has always portrayed his Conservative opponents as hopeless Little Englanders who not only oppose the euro but hanker to pull out of the E.U. altogether, deaf not only to British interests but also to the popular will. But now the Tories are starting to hit back with charges that it's Blair who is out of touch and undemocratic. Their weapon: the constitution now emerging from the European Convention. It's still being negotiated, but it's highly likely to boost Brussels' powers at the expense of member countries - a deeply unpopular proposition in the U.K. Unlike...
...members aren’t the only ones fed up with GESO’s tactics. Many of its own members removed themselves from the membership list, stating that the GESO leadership is deaf to feedback from the general membership. Is this the group Yale graduate students want to represent them? Clearly...