Word: rugs
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...does not matter whether a Roman Catholic priest is homosexual or heterosexual as long as he is true to his vows of celibacy [RELIGION, May 20]. The real scandal in the church is how the hierarchy has swept under the rug the actions of pedophile priests. Being homosexual should not be equated with being a pedophile. This misleading connotation is causing great pain to many gays and to innocent priests. JOYCE RHODY Albert Lea, Minn...
...might have had," Rowley writes. In a way, she's right--for every American, what might have been will be maddeningly, eternally unknowable. But Rowley has at least forced the FBI and the Administration to confront their failures directly and publicly, rather than sweep them under a self-stitched rug of wartime immunity. The congressional investigations may yet get bogged down in finger pointing and political grandstanding, but for now they represent the main opportunity to learn the lessons that could help guard against the next 9/11. Before Rowley came along, the Administration had succeeded in derailing such inquiries...
...purchase price turns out to have wasted, when it becomes apparent that the value of the merged company not only isn't more than the original buyer thought it was worth, but a whole lot less. Such losses in actual value used to be quietly swept under the rug, amortized away over the course of as much as 40 years...
...almost impossible not to hum along. The problem has never been the music, but the pretentious and overly literal lyrics. Both "Jagged Little Pill" and "Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie" painted a picture of an obsessive ex-girlfriend with a little too much time on her hands. "Under Rug Swept," Morissette's latest release falls prey to the same shortcomings...
...home life with his wife Lily (whom he married in 1906) and his son Felix was utterly blameless; no mistresses, outbursts of jealousy, undisclosed boyfriends or bankruptcies lurked under the rug. His one self-indulgence was cooking. He always bore a social grudge against Picasso, having refused to let him in when, like any Spaniard, Picasso arrived two hours late for their one and only appointment. (What they would have said to each other is conjectural. Klee spoke little French and no Spanish, Picasso no German...