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...think that an important ingredient of their error is racial prejudice—not the hateful, snarling, open bigotry that terrorized my parents in their youth, but rather a vague, sophisticated, low-key prejudice that is chameleonlike in its ability to adapt to new surroundings and to hide even from those firmly in its grip...
...don’t want to hide the fact that there are people in the CityStep company who aspire to [work] in the less privileged schools,” Junior says, weighing her words carefully. “And I personally would like to see CityStep go in that direction...
...revisions focus less on these innovations, which rely heavily on out-of-sight technology, and more on creating a natural aesthetic that interweaves natural elements more tightly with the future campus. In order to accomplish this aim, the plan focuses on improving interconnectivity throughout Allston while increasing open space, hiding unsightly infrastructure, and even leaving room for an urban farm.The future campus’ “streets are very much designed for people—people on foot,” according to Michael Vergason, a landscape architect on Harvard’s master planning team who describes...
...that "virtually every time someone watches that movie, they're watching me being raped." (These claims were widely disputed.) But Damiano did his best to make his leading lady look good. He gave her an alliterative, movie-star name and devised costumes, lighting tricks and cagey camera angles to hide her abdominal scar, a memento from an earlier car wreck. Linda was no goddess, but neither was she your standard porno skank; she was slim and freckled, and her inexperience on screen played like freshness, innocence. Moreover, the movie itself had such an easygoing good nature that audiences could enjoy...
...market accounting (in which a bank's assets are assessed at market value) could have an affect on banks' financial earnings by "obscuring the realities." He warns that changing the current standard might "provide more room to manipulate earnings sometime in the future" and could "allow bankers to hide big unrealized losses on their bond portfolios." But Tokyo apparently wants to put out its major conflagration now and worry about the potential brushfires later...