Word: veil
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...Angel of Steadfast Love--a gift to the town from a Pennsylvania artist to commemorate 9/11--stands in an empty lot where pro-Bush supporters gathered. The locals have taken to decorating it for certain holidays and other occasions: red, white and blue banners on the Fourth of July, a veil and bouquet of flowers for Jenna Bush's wedding last May. (See pictures of George W. Bush...
...anger-management programs. In addition, there should be a way to keep managers accountable to their workers. We should make workers’ opinions public to students so that we can know when people in our dining halls feel disrespected as women, feel that they cannot wear the veil, feel that they cannot speak unless spoken...
...Retreating behind a digital veil started long before the Internet existed, with the advent of answering machines. "People would call a phone when they knew the other person wasn't available to pick up," says Charles Steinfield, a professor at Michigan State University who co-authored a peer-reviewed study called "The Benefits of Facebook 'Friends.' " "It enabled them to convey information without forcing them to interact...
...keeps up the pressure the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) could find itself in power after the general election next May. Like the Republican Party here in America, and like good right-wing organizations across the globe, the BJP is brilliant at hiding its ulterior motives under the veil of national security. The last time the BJP was in power was by no means tranquil, and the party’s idea of fighting terror was passing a law that made the Patriot Act look like the Declaration of Human Rights, and then using it to specifically target Indian...
...both theater and art, he has created a new dynamic in performance. “Instead of presenting the text to the audience, vis-à-vis the movement, we’re hiding the text, we’re sheathing the text, we’re putting a veil over it,” Vartikar-McCullough says. “The whole thing could exist without the text, the text blooms out from underneath...