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...state's suit includes claims that these Cambridge city officials stopped all trash pickup at the school for several weeks in the summer of 1988 and later conspired to conceal their neglect. The state also claims that they barred Commonwealth Day officials from moving equipment into their building, acting at the request of school neighbors...
B.C.C.I. internal-audit documents reviewed by TIME and interviews with present and former B.C.C.I. banking officers in several countries reveal a pattern of unprecedented global financial duplicity. The bank may secretly control other U.S. banks. It has used front men to conceal ownership of businesses in many countries. Adeptly deploying political influence around the world, say investigators, it has enlisted sovereign governments in shady financial deals built on its ability to control massive global flows of illegal funds, such as drug money and flight capital. It has involved itself with the central banks of more than 30 Third World countries...
Hart's piece centers around the flier Sumner Anderson and I disseminated to our classmates' parents. We composed the flier to reach those parents who share our traditional values in order to apprise them of that which Harvard would probably try to conceal from them during their stay. We believed it worked: numerous parents congratulated and thanked us for doing...
...audiences and himself. At the heart of this new play is what social workers call a dysfunctional family: a mother who was physically and psychologically abusive and four middle-aged children who still suffer the weaknesses she inflicted in teaching them to be strong. In many plays, hardened grandmothers conceal a cuddly core. Inside this woman is an iceberg, distant and adrift. When the retarded daughter has poured out longing for marriage and babies, for tenderness and some shred of affection, her mother rises and leaves the room without a gesture or word, just a slow shutting of the door...
...cases; an additional 350,000 display more moderate symptoms. PTSD is a state of extreme arousal caused by the virtual nonstop release of adrenaline and other similar substances into the bloodstream. When cars backfire, PTSD patients generally hit the dirt. The sound of helicopter rotor blades causes some to conceal themselves in trees. A baby's cry can invoke instant rage. Put in nonclinical terms, says psychiatrist Staten, the symptoms of PTSD are "like experiencing one's most threatening nightmares." A recent medical study found that the adrenaline levels of PTSD sufferers remain higher during hospital treatment than those...