Word: disappearings
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...second straight game, the Harvard men’s basketball team trailed early on but managed to claw back for a tie during the second half. But for the second straight game, the Crimson watched the score, and the ball, disappear into its opponent’s hands...
...Instead, Taniguchi created an elegant, understated jewel box of a structure true to one of the guiding principles of his career: as a place for people and art to interact, the museum building should all but disappear. "Architecture is essentially a container for people and what's inside," says Taniguchi. "My architecture should not compete for attention if it is trying to fulfill that mission. Also, this is the Museum of Modern Art, one of the finest collections of art in the world. How do you compete with that? I don't think you should compete...
...history teaches that violent attacks on insurgencies such as the campaign mounted by the U.S. in Fallujah can work. "You don't just keep growing insurgents," Scales says. "By effectively eliminating the hard-core terrorists, the fellow travelers see the handwriting on the wall. While the insurgency doesn't disappear, it tends to collapse to something down around noise level." But if Fallujah is a sign of things to come, the volume is likely to get cranked up first. --Reported by Andrew Lee Butters/Mosul, Aparisim Ghosh and Phil Zabriskie/Baghdad, and Mark Thompson/Washington
...sell Parmalat products, and Parmalat would send them fake invoices and charge costs and fees to make the "sales" look legitimate. Then Parmalat would write out a credit note for the amount the subsidiaries supposedly owed it, and take that to banks to raise money. To make the debt disappear, Parmalat transferred the liabilities to off-book subsidi-aries, also based in offshore havens. Bondi, the bankruptcy commissioner, says the system was a lethal brew. "In an attempt to hide its state of insolvency," he said in a report, Parmalat "entangled itself in gran-diose financial operations that were ever...
...years before, Clinton had been shunned by his own Vice President, and more than a few Democrats believe that hurt Gore. But even so, there were dangers in flying too close to the Sun King now, not the least of which was how a gray presence like Kerry could disappear in the glare. There were those who believed that Clinton's real interest was less in helping Kerry win in 2004 than in clearing the way for Hillary...