Word: glossing
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...Land has been to improve ties with the Jews and the state of Israel, which the Vatican only recognized in 1993. Arab Christians say that have no objection to the Vatican reaching out to Jews, but at the same time, they don't want the Pontiff's visit to gloss over their own troubles with the Israelis. Says George Said, a Bethlehem property dealer: "If the Pope continues to keep quiet about the suffering of Christians from Israelis, a day will come when the churches of Bethlehem and Jerusalem are turned into empty museums without a single Christian...
Practically speaking, the aesthetic of our magazine is recession-chic. We weren’t able to go full color, the best paper, the nicest gloss finish. While ultimately it privileges content over spectacle, we did have to compromise a lot of wonderful color content. Most of the images you are seeing in here are representative of larger bodies of work that we weren’t able to include. Luckily we have the web as another platform, so please check out hbombmag.com...
...President Obama deploys his many czars and task forces, he should remember that no amount of IQ can cure the human condition. Like Republicans, Democrats are prone to overemphasize their favorite facts and theories, to gloss over contradictory data, to skew their analysis to match their values. That doesn't make them dumb people or bad people. It just makes them people...
...newspaper movies is its honesty. The columnist wants that column, and maybe a follow up, and yes, making a sorry life less sad is good, but he never wanted to become a defacto one-man Social Services Agency. He can't cure Ayers and no one is trying to gloss over that reality here (except for one scene at the end that contradicts what we've come to know about Ayers' ability to cope with crowds). All Lopez can do is try to help, and the movie gives testimony to the way newspapers can comfort the afflicted...
...tone for the Crimson. At No. 2, the partnership of sophomore Aba Omodele-Lucien and senior Sasha Ermakov won resoundingly against Justen Roth and Phil Law (8-2), followed by a point-clinching win for the No. 3 pairing of junior Michael Hayes and freshman Alistair Felton (8-1). Gloss was duly applied at No. 1; sophomore Alexei Chijoff-Evans and co-captain Chris Clayton fought back against the Quaker’s Hicham Laalej and Adam Schwartz to win 8-7 (7-5).Harvard continued to dominate in the singles. At No. 2, Chijoff-Evans defeated Jonathan Boym...