Word: pales
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When one considers global warming and nuclear waste, these issues pale in comparison. But environmental problems occur on all levels and this campus has a responsibility to do what it can to attack the problems it causes. Then, at the very least, Harvard will be doing its part to ensure that this campus is still around for another 350 years...
...This tall, slender building, designed by the English baroque architect Nicholas Hawksmoor, acquires a comatose power; the columns of its portico look as thick and squat as those of Karnak, repeating the compression of Kossoff's nudes and heads. But it is the light that one most remembers, a pale, almost chalky emanation from the grainy whites and subtle grays that seems to bathe and lift the whole image. Substance is light. Such paintings, and others like Here Comes the Diesel, 1987 (a train passing through a cutting in North London), connect Kossoff back to late Constable, with their flickering...
Good question, especially since the fair-haired, fair-skinned Malones had identified themselves as white on their first applications. Eventually the twins, now 33, claimed that they did not learn they were black until 1976, when, they say, their mother discovered a sepia photograph of a pale-looking woman she said was their black great-grandmother. Last month, after an investigation of their claim, they were fired...
Consider Harvard's failure to divest from South African-related stocks. The moral significance of this new divestment could only pale in comparison. This new idea is simply the latest in a string of ways Harvard has attempted to appear socially conscious while abdicating its ultimate responsibility to act in the most ethical way possible in every arena...
Historians agree that John F. Kennedy "won" his 1960 debate with Richard Nixon not on substantive issues, but because Nixon showed up on national television looking pale and nervous. The 1976 debate between Ford and Carter is remembered, not for its arguments over the state of the economy or the proper U.S. role in world affairs, but rather for Ford's strange assertion that Poland was not under Soviet domination. A mere reassuring phrase from candidate Reagan, "there you go again," was enough to stave off an issue-oriented Carter attack...