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Paparazzi get photos of celebrities doing pretty much everything, but they never seem to get pictures of stars after surgery. Why is that? Oh, there's a whole system you need to know about. First of all, the plastic surgeons in Beverly Hills all have secret celebrity doors. After the surgery, you leave the plastic surgeon's office covered in a sheet that's not unlike a burqa. Your assistant takes you to an upscale hotel where you hide in a dark room of shame until you're better. There are bandaged rich ladies walking around the hallways...
Math lecturer Oliver Knill—the Swiss-born course head for Math 21a and 21b—has a secret life. He's better known outside Harvard not for inducting countless math and science concentrators into the ways of multivariable calculus, but for his comprehensive, online list of movie clips with math references...
Unlike Jeffrey Wigand, the tobacco-industry whistle-blower made famous in the movie The Insider, Potter doesn't have a smoking gun or secret documents to unveil. He signed a confidentiality agreement before leaving Cigna and intends to honor it. "I have no intention of disclosing any proprietary information," he says. For-profit health-insurance-industry practices Potter talks about, like rescission - dropping expensive-to-cover policyholders on grounds that they failed to disclose pre-existing health conditions - are not secrets. This is, in fact, how private health insurers make profits. In Potter's view, these practices just need more...
...hammer I had been looking for to shatter" the nuclear deal done by the Clinton Administration, as Bolton once put it. Once the U.S. re-engaged with North Korea under Bush, the CIA walked back a bit from its assessment that Pyongyang had a secret uranium-enrichment program, saying during a congressional hearing in 2007 that the intelligence community was assured only at "mid confidence level" that the North had a uranium-enrichment program. Its confidence, it turns out, should have been higher. (See rare pictures from inside North Korea...
...flats to a royal audience with students this summer, the gossip magazine Hola put the story at the top of its website. Whether her affection for the high heel is a fashion preference, or a necessity dictated by her husband's 6' 5.5" (197 cms) height, remains a state secret...