Word: glossed
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...Given Russia's cooperation so far in the U.S. war in Afghanistan, including its sharing intelligence about al-Qaeda and the Taliban, Bush is apt to comply. He is also expected to gloss over Putin's authoritarian crackdown on his country's fledgling independent media, as well as his making the national legislature, the Duma, a totally servile body. "The things about Putin that Bush and Condi criticized during the campaign have only gotten worse in the past two years," says McFaul. "It's not like Putin's suddenly changed his ways at home...
...worse) with this column. When it began, I promised to rant and rave about the littlest details in my favorite not-so-good-for-you fashion mag. And for the last nine-or-so months, I’ve done just that. I started with their appeal; shiny gloss in unwavering, their buy-it-now! glimmer is intoxicating. But time and again, I’ve returned to their failings. Treatment of plus-sized models or the fix-it-quick life solutions come to mind. What a long and strange trip it’s been: from breasts to prairie...
Summers is a smart man fluent in economic jargon. It is all too easy for him to gloss over the moral basis for our social welfare system. In the current debate over school vouchers, made more immediate by the recent decision by Philadelphia to privatize its schools, we must include the incalculables in our cost-benefit analysis. Summers should remember that while the language of economics and incentives can be a useful tool, it does not tell the whole story...
...Lankans have been flocking to "Trinco" to see what they have been missing all these years. Most head to the Nilaveli Beach Hotel, tel: (94-2) 622-071, about 15 km north of town. Originally set up as a luxury resort, the place has lost some of its gloss. Still, the beach stretches for at least a mile and rooms go for as little as $15 a night. Once there, you can take in a boat trip to nearby Pigeon Island for snorkeling. Or head into town to see the 17th century Fort Frederick and Swami Rock, which rises...
That is why, despite all the pomp and gloss, rock star displays and true-to-the-album reenactment, The Calling, is still credible as a rock band. Frontman Band’s melodrama only intensifies the band’s presence. The defeated to-the-knee collapses amidst power ballads and Top 40 hit “Wherever You Will Go” conveyed an unearthly burden, as if The Calling were sent from heaven to deliver redemption. The beyond-cool ’60s swagger and spasms during the fervidly-charged “Nothing’s Changed?...