Word: glassing
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People don't mind when museums protect their icons by placing them in glass boxes. Likewise, galleries can ask visitors to check their bags at the door, while private collectors can rig their homes with the latest alarm systems. But in a church, even the smallest security measure is a barrier between believers and the symbols of their belief. "It's a huge dilemma," says Gligoris, head of Greece's art squad. "I can't recall how many times I've urged bishops, abbots, monks and nuns to have religious treasures stored in controlled, guarded environments, and then only bring...
...reputation as a maverick above partisan politics is well-earned. Calling on his own experience as a prisoner of war, he has ardently opposed torture and criticized many in his own party who do not. While campaigning in Iowa, he refused to “drink his morning glass of ethanol,” as he jokingly refers to other candidates’ support of ethanol subsidies to pander to the Iowa constituency. Time and time again, he has come out against special interest groups and wasteful government spending, all in the name of serving the people...
...Professional sports are not that different from any other occupation. Owners and general managers are under the same pressures as the CEOs of any company. And the athletes? Well, despite the fact that we often only witness them as a collection of pixels behind a glass screen, they’re human too, and we must understand them as such. From the members of the press, all the way up to the skybox, the sporting world is not its own little vacuum within our TV screen like we often believe...
...Bhutto’s proudest accomplishments was breaking through the “glass ceiling” as a woman in a Muslim society, she told The Crimson in 1998. Bhutto became the first female prime minister of Pakistan—and of any Islamic country—in 1988 at the age of 35, a position she would hold twice...
...Bhutto's proudest accomplishments was breaking through the "glass ceiling" as a woman in a Muslim society, she told The Crimson in 1998. Bhutto became the first female prime minister of Pakistan and of any Islamic country in 1988 at the age of 35, a position she would fill twice...