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...gone to elaborate lengths to apply political and psychological pressure to the participants, pushing them to cut a deal. The plain fluorescent lights and the faint stains in the rug at the conference center made it clear that the Hope Hotel was no Versailles or Vienna but a place to do business, pure and simple. The leaders were given identical accommodations-- identical suites furnished with identical desks, identical lampshades and identically colored towels. This arrangement carried the message that the three men enjoyed equal status and that they bore equal responsibility to resolve their differences...
...worst aspect of the cage on Holyoke is its symbolic value. While it may not have been the intention of either Harvard Real Estate or the homelessness empowerment groups to "sweep the problem under the rug," that was certainly the result. Too often, we all have a tendency to deal with the deep problems of poverty and homelessness by pushing them away, out of sight and out of mind. I say with some confidence that every single person reading this editorial, at one time or another, has responded to a beggar's plea with a feeling of resentment...
...says of stardom. "Every minute of my life." But while she yearns for respect from critics, she also harbors the sometimes contradictory desire for blockbuster commercial success. One of the things that inspires her, she says, is "never wanting to have that feeling again of instability and that the rug could be pulled out from under me, because that's how I've always felt...
...into her paintings, as did the theater critic Carl Van Vechten, author of the novel Nigger Heaven and prime link between downtown white New York and the Harlem Renaissance, posing in rapturously exaggerated contrapposto in 1922's Portrait of Carl Van Vechten on a red stool on a black rug on a red carpet; while in Portrait of Stieglitz, 1928, the shoe and cane (nothing else) of artist Charles Demuth enter from the left, and the gloved, ermine-cuffed hand of the preposterous New York dandy Baron de Meyer appears on the right...
Senator Barbara Boxer said she'd force a vote to order public hearings on chargesSenator Bob Packwoodhas sexually harassed numerous women since 1969. Boxer, a feisty California Democrat, took to the Senate floor asserting, "We irrevocably lose the people's respect by sweeping our problems under the committee room rug." But Ethics Committee Chairman Mitch McConnell, who could but hasn't ordered such hearings, shot back "Perhaps everyone needs a cooling-off period." Other Republicans threatened to pursue harassment charges against Democratic SenatorsEdward Kennedyand Tom Daschle unless Boxer relents. Republicans say Boxer has been hypocritical on the hearings issue...