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...students of English gardening will know, that's a man-made landscape feature, a trench dug to conceal a fence in order to preserve the view. The nuns have one on the grounds of their convent, which Howie loves to approach at perilous speeds on his tractor mower. We go right to the edge with him, and even if we're not always laughing, we're glad to be along for the ride...
...confidential drug purchase histories of many Harvard students and employees have been available for months to any internet user, as have the e-mail addresses of high-profile undergraduates whose contact information the University legally must conceal, a Crimson investigation has found...
Wilson is frail in other ways that the album was able to conceal completely. At the Orpheum he was stage furniture, installed on his stool at the beginning and rarely standing up. When he did move about, he staggered. He played his keyboard mostly at will; often he waved his hands in the air, keeping no better time than the more enthusiastic members of his audience. The backing band, which at times boasted a string section of five and a brass section of three, had a professional conductor...
...Osirak highlights the problem left by even a successful pinpoint strike - ten years later, UN inspectors found that Iraq had been far further along the road to building nuclear weapons than anyone had anticipated. The preemptive strike had simply forced it to diversify and conceal its methods...
...make sure the Cuban government would “feel the pressure of our disdain for that regime” by denying these academics “the hospitality of the United States.” The State Department is wrong on all accounts, and it fails to conceal its real ulterior objective: appeasing the significant bloc of Cuban-American voters in the crucial swing state of Florida...