Word: scratching
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Harvard is often cited as a model of diversity. But when you scratch the surface, what lies underneath...
...generally leap at the chance to buy. Museums, those bastions of traditional culture, can also be compromised. Lowenthal points out that the Getty Museum, endowed by the late oil billionaire J. Paul Getty, has "enormous funds" and does not have to solicit donations to build its collection virtually from scratch...
Gaskell said yesterday that because he has no predecessor, the full responsibilities of his job are not fully defined. "I've got to start a new department from scratch," he said...
Some degree of floundering was inevitable. Dismantling a seven-decade-old communist dictatorship and building new institutions from scratch is a Herculean task, especially for people who have no training in how to make democratic politics work. In Russia the current leaders did not attain power through a well-orchestrated plan but were thrust into a vacuum created by the failure of the reactionary putsch in August. They have been improvising ever since...
Although the negotiations for Aristide's life while he was in military custody last week were touch and go, Haitians were not surprised that he escaped unscathed. They are used to watching him emerge from the ashes without a scratch. Some even believe he is divinely protected, by either Christian powers or the powers of Haitian vodou. He shrugs off such assertions but adds, "I have been immunized against fear." In Haiti now, in the dark slums, in the bloodied hospitals, behind burning barricades on country roads, they are waiting for Mr. Miracle to return...