Word: veils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Woodward's book, "Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA," seems to shed light on a mystery that has stumped investigators for almost a year. Former White House aide Oliver North is the only other person to have said that Casey knew about the diversion of funds from arms sales to the Iranians...
...approaching to reclaim her and her children: "And if she thought anything, it was No. No. Nono. Nonono. Simple. She just flew. Collected every bit of life she had made, all the parts of her that were precious and fine and beautiful, and carried, pushed, dragged them through the veil, out, away, over there where no one could hurt them." If she had had her way at that mad moment, Sethe would have killed all her children and then herself...
...gallery of portraits of American heroes as well. He said he wanted "to bring into one view a world in miniature," and that was the gesture he painted himself making in 1822 at the entrance to the main hall of his museum: an aging man twitching aside the veil, raising the curtain on the world's collected knowledge. He was the first in a long and recognizably American line of pushy sages and didactic popularizers, which would run forward to people like Will and Ariel Durant and Mortimer Adler...
...agree with the comment made by former French Health Minister Simone Veil ((May 18)) that equating Barbie's crimes against the French underground with his other crimes "is the banalization of everything that happened." An atrocity is an atrocity, whether it is the sending of innocent people to death camps or the torture-murder of Jean Moulin, the French Resistance fighter. The lives lost in the death camps should not be elevated to a status above that of Moulin and others murdered by the Nazis. Recognizing Barbie's responsibility for non-Holocaust atrocities in no way trivializes the role...
...past two years have seen organized campaigns by pro-divestment candidates to gain seats on the Board of Overseers. One would hope that this effort would help to institutionalize dissent on campus and lift the veil of secrecy that now covers its governing structure. The faculty needs to follow the lead of its more outspoken members and buck the tendency of Spence and his committees to control dissent and minimize public debate on educational issues. The community as a whole must not allow Bok to Balkanize and corporatize his various constituencies...