Word: concealed
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Party suites and river views aren’t the only criteria by which to pick a room. One must also consider the secrets that the room’s four walls might conceal, some of which have sparked age-old myths and rumors that still manage to frighten residents today. Eliot has always had a reputation of housing Harvard’s elite, but rumor has it that its residents haven’t always received the royal treatment. “I heard that in Eliot, you have to sleep in the servants’ quarters...
Madoff arrived at court in a dark suit and bulletproof vest, and proceeded to deny his victims even the catharsis of a trial with his plan to plead guilty to 11 felony counts. That surrender enraged some who feared this was one more scam, to protect his family and conceal his true villainy. He still faces 150 years in prison. "I hope his time in jail will be hell on earth," said victim Joan Sinkin, 75, of Boynton Beach...
...Queen Elizabeth I, who believed lipstick had health benefits, wore it with the white makeup she used to conceal facial scars...
...Second, mathematical explanations of politics conceal its larger significance. For example, take Charles Cameron’s piece on veto bargaining. You could learn about the give-and-take between the president and Congress by scrutinizing Bill Clinton’s schemes against Newt Gingrich. But Cameron reduces these highly personal exchanges to utility maximization problems. “The utility of any point in the policy space to either the president or Congress can be read from their utility functions,” he drones. His observations are nearly impossible to use: How do you find Barack Obama?...
...effect as using bubblegum to plug up a leaky faucet.They can serve as a temporary fix, momentarily masking deficiencies and creating the illusion of a fundamentally sound operation.But as the Harvard baseball team found out yesterday, sharp line drives into the gaps and base-clearing home runs can only conceal shoddy defense and ineffective pitching for so long.The Crimson lineup scorched the ball in yesterday’s back-and-forth battle with Holy Cross at O’Donnell Field, but lackluster play on the mound and in the field ultimately doomed Harvard...