Word: secrete
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...then deliver a long, excruciatingly embarrassing ode written by his friends. For every misread word, the grad swigs booze and gets pelted with eggs and flour. The ordeal ends when the ode is affixed to the university walls for all to see. No pomp here. And therein lies the secret to Padua: It's more than willing to share its charms, but you need to know where to look...
...could all this have happened in the law-abiding United Kingdom? Because Northern Ireland, in its time of Troubles, was a land apart. In the late '80s, the British government adopted a more aggressive security policy to break the deadlock with the i.r.a. During that push, a secret army detachment known as the Force Research Unit managed to insert an agent named Brian Nelson into the Ulster Defense Association, a loyalist gang. F.R.U.'s commander, Colonel Gordon Kerr (now Brigadier), later claimed his intent with Nelson was to stop killings. But the effect of the intelligence the army passed...
Wechsler has mixed emotions about his years in East Germany, which were dominated by the repressive Stasi, the East German secret police, as well as the miseries of life behind the Iron Curtain...
...serving as a reporter and editor for The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Texas Monthly and The Atlantic Monthly, he has written a number of critically acclaimed books, including The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How it Changed America, and most recently, The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy. Klatell, who served with Lemann on the task force, said they were thinking about the future of journalism...
...kicked off with “No, Not Now,” showcasing Bays’ throbbing synth beats as he bellowed, “Oh no, she’s not a secret now / The wolves have smelled her scent.” The crowd—mostly glasses-bound pomo punks and largely female—moshed appropriately to highlights “Touch You Touch You” and “Oh, Goddamnit.” The band concluded the short set with massive audience sing-alongs to their hit “Bandages?...