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Like the mock execution, the talk of a release that never occurred might have been a tactic to demoralize the prisoners. But Queen believes that there really was an effort to free them that the students or their allies thwarted. Queen overheard some captors "really cursing the government, particularly the foreign ministry. They were saying: 'We've been betrayed again.' Evidently, the foreign ministry had worked some kind of a deal...
Those of us who decided to spend these two weeks talking to people as they came to register for the draft feared at first that we might catch a lot of flak. But the super-patriots are gone; yeah, one or two guys made meant-to-be-overheard remarks about the "faggots" or "communists." But almost everybody wanted to stop and talk, and almost none of them were happy...
...That overheard conversation so appalled Pryor that he began studying the use of outside consultants by the Government. Today he is the foremost congressional expert, and critic, on the subject. As chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Civil Service and General Services, Pryor joined Democratic Congressman Herbert Harris II of Virginia, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Human Resources, to dig up some facts. During the past two weeks they have held joint hearings on the abuses and weaknesses of federal consultant programs. At the same time, the General Accounting Office released a devastating study on the subject. Says Harris...
...Vegas newspapers, one nurse, known as "Death's Angel," pulled plugs on the life support systems of as many as six patients. Rather than protest her actions, some co-workers apparently treated the deaths as an opportunity for wagering. The bizarre game came to light when another nurse overheard comments in the cafeteria about "Death's Angel." David Brandsness, the hospital's administrator, calls the charges "as serious as any that could be made in the health-care profession...
...horns. Turning back toward my new acquaintances, they seemed for a moment to be my friends in Tommy's, but the rays of the sun affected me. When I roused from my reverie, I realized that the gibberish they uttered was German, not the vacuous, unintelligible, pinball-punctuated banter overheard on Bow Street. I smiled, shaking my head at my own silliness, and, as Oscar was fairly imploring me, I decided to try a piece of the plum cake after...