Along come CD writers and MP3s and the market collapses about their ears.

BBC: Why is it 'OK' to nick software?

Reformers cannot constantly wave this idea around as though they are the only ones who care about teacher quality, and then plug their ears whenever critics point out that tests are a very crude, very imprecise measure of student achievements and teacher quality.

FORBES: The False Choices of Education Reform

On the paths between buildings, mule deer wander about, nibbling at potted plants and twitching their ears as rumpled engineers shuffle past, lost in calculation.

NEWYORKER: The Martian Chroniclers

Psychologists are warning about the detrimental effects of such overindulgence, but their cries are falling largely on deaf ears.

CNN: LITTLE EMPERORS

So their concern about the uncertainty of passing this two-month extension seems hollow to my ears.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

Before wrapping themselves in the flag and shutting their eyes and ears to the truth, they should remember what America is really all about.

CNN: Kerry: We are here to make America stronger