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...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...
...singles. “Both last year and this year, the suite has been home to nine guys and one girl,” says current resident Katharine T. Waterman, Jr. ’09. Since the common room looks over Cowperthwaite Street, non-registered parties are tough to conceal. If your blocking group is looking for a party suite with some privacy, we recommend buddying up to your housemasters now.Kirkland: ‘The Swamp’This maze of a suite on the second floor of I-entryway has eight connecting rooms, with three common rooms and five...
...more recent years, I used yet another method to conceal my fraud. I wired money between the United States and the United Kingdom to make it appear as though there were actual securities transactions executed on behalf of my investment advisory clients. Specifically, I had money transferred from the U.S. bank account of my investment advisory business to the London bank account of Madoff Securities International Ltd., a United Kingdom corporation that was an affiliate of my business in New York. Madoff Securities International Ltd. was principally engaged in proprietary trading and was a legitimate, honestly run and operated business...