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...format in an attempt to hide the inexperience of its vice-presidential nominee. The campaign even tried to eliminate question-and-answer segments from the debate entirely, as aides openly expressed concern that Palin would be at a disadvantage against the savvy and experienced Biden. Debates exist to unmask weaknesses, not to hide them. In this election cycle, the vice-presidential debate ought to be an opportunity for the citizenry to discover the largely unknown Palin—even if that includes her potential unfamiliarity with relevant political topics—not for the McCain campaign to doctor the debate...
...notoriously outed in 2005 for attempting to whitewash his own entry on the site (Wiki contributors noted that he deleted references to his Wikipedia co-founder, Larry Sanger, as well as to a search site he founded that included adult content). Now a monitoring program called WikiWatcher aims to unmask similar transgressions on other Wiki entries - such as when ExxonMobil tried to downplay the environmental impact of the Valdez oil spill and when the FBI deleted aerial images of the Guantánamo Bay detention camp from the camp's entry...
...that only a few years earlier had shown on Trey Anastasio of Phish. I spent a portion of one day following around the most eccentric characters. A large man in heavy geisha-style make-up, a dress, and an inexplicable shiny circular target on his back forced me to unmask the falsity of this entire spectacle. I don’t care how weird you are, no one walks around wearing an outfit like that in 100-degree weather. I followed him to the restricted, Bonnaroo-backstage area. I now knew—for certain—that...
...complicated as getting any of my chemistry experiments to work, and I’ve done some pretty complicated chemistry experiments,” said Lipoff, a second-year chemistry doctoral candidate at MIT. Students welcomed the amenities. “Any technology that helps to unmask how ridiculous the myth is that the Quad is so very far away is good technology as far as we’re concerned,” said Pforzheimer House Committee Co-Chair Noah A. Rosenblum ’08. —Staff writer Victoria B. Kabak can be reached at vkabak@fas.harvard.edu...
...TIME: You and Karen write that the "Judas" author was angry, particularly at the Christian church's developing cult of martyrdom. You write that he conveyed "the urgency of someone who wants to unmask what he feels is the hideous folly of leaders who encourage people to get themselves killed in this way." Whom might he have meant...