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This Sunday the Ford Hall Forum will host Leonard Peikoff, Objectivism's leading philosopher and Rand's intellectual heir. In his talk, Peikoff will address the underlying causes of crime. Some of our professors should perhaps lift their "veil of ignorance" and venture to the Ford Hall Forum...
...process. If its workings are under public scrutiny, the Ad Board will have an additional incentive to be as fair as possible in reviewing cases. Under the status quo, the Ad Board can apply rules inconsistently or treat similar cases in different ways precisely because it operates under the veil of secrecy...
...wheelchair or on crutches, the fact of his being stricken with polio is prominently expressed, carved in granite, in a chronology of landmark events of his life. F.D.R. realized that a physical disability was often misperceived as a sign of weakness. Thus he recognized the need to veil his own disability to focus the public's view on his strengths as a leader, not his handicap. I oppose any attempt to alter, delay or add cost to this 40-year project. The time has come to cease revisionism. The memorial's purpose is to provide a historical retrospective...
...house, but causing no casualties. On March 10, an attack jet accidentally fired a missile that narrowly missed a nuclear power plant south of Moscow. TIME Moscow correspondent Terence Nelan says many more foul-ups go unreported because Russian defense and space programs still operate under the old Soviet veil of secrecy. "The Russian armed forces are undermanned, under-maintained, under-funded, and have an extremely low morale," says Nelan. "There are just accidents waiting to happen...
...everyone loves the Chieftains. Almost. "The diehards don't like us," Moloney says. "But with The Long Black Veil we've made a million more friends than we've lost. We are not going off our rocker. And we are not going to become rockers." Moloney hopes to go in a different direction. "If I can only find some quiet time, I want to write the symphonic music I've been dreaming about since I was a child." His face is illuminated with delight as he says this. It beams again when he offers this innocent credo: "The great leaders...