Word: baring
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...intelligence officials acknowledge privately that Sept. 11 laid bare many of the agency's most crippling weaknesses. Six months later, the problems remain--buried under billions of dollars in post-9/11 funding and stubbornly resistant to change. Insiders agree that the CIA's failure to learn of the Sept. 11 plot stemmed in large part from the CIA's inability to gather human intelligence about foreign threats. The agency, a senior Administration official concedes, "got out of the human intelligence business in favor of technical collection" after the fall of the Soviet Union. Today the average overseas assignment...
...subversive instinct was evident from his bare feet upwards. McFerrin utilized his improvisational ability to twist classical music; Pachelbel’s “Canon” became a country and western hoe-down and received tumultuous audience response. He interjected his performances with parodied accents and hammy antics, demonstrating that pretension and talent need not be inextricably linked. While stage hands made one of many set changes, he, comically stern and stoic, played polytonal music to accompany, and pulled aside Jonathan Salz of the Sanders Theater production staff and staged an impromptu interview as he supervised the transition...
...Mayer, the best cursory description would compare him to a young Dave Matthews: a handsome guitar strumming songwriter with a strong, distinctive voice. To add to the effect, Mayer’s lyrics are extremely personal, as songs like “Your Body Is A Wonderland” bare his sensitive nature and vulnerable side to anyone who will listen. At the show, girls screamed as John proclaimed, “I want to like crap, I want to be in love, I want to write bad poetry.” Will the hopeless romantic finally get the girl...
...with the almost evenly divided House up for grabs in November, the redistricting battle is getting even more bare-knuckled this time. Democrats have to switch only six seats to retake the House. So far, from the states that have completed the redistricting, there's been little net gain for either Republicans or Democrats. But some states have yet to settle on their lines and the political battles there are growing more intense...
...name the scientists behind the first cloned house pet gave their creation, a shorthaired calico that is a genetic (though not a visual) duplicate of her biological mom. Because she is so seductively cute--pulling at the same heartstrings an infant human clone would invariably tug--she lays bare the emotional subtext that has so far been missing in the great cloning debate. It's one thing to argue the merits of cloning when you're talking about uncuddly sheep, mice, cattle, goats and pigs. It's quite another when the clone is practically sitting in your lap, mewing...