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...scoffed at WHO warnings against travel to southern China and declared, "It is perfectly safe" to visit the country. An official familiar with leadership briefings says senior leaders must have known they were spreading false assurances, but "the pressure to say everything is under control is enormous." Still, the veil of secrecy unraveled. In mid-April, as the government stuck to its claims that the disease was under control, current and former health professionals in China revealed to TIME that authorities were suppressing the number of suspected cases and had ordered doctors to adhere to requirements for diagnosing SARS that...
...Dartboard has come up with a solution that every Harvard liberal will love: Put interhouse restrictions to a Rawlsian vote. Until late March, next year’s first-years will inhabit Harvard behind a veil of ignorance, unaware of either their endowments as privileged Adamsians or their impending exile to the Quad. Balancing overcrowding fears with the threat of being in the crowd that gets unceremoniously thrown out the door, these first-years should vote yea or nay, whether dining hall segregation should be a relic of the past...
...photo, she, as the subject, lifts a white veil off her face and above her head. She is inside some sort of tent, and Christmas lights spider down behind her. She averts her eyes from the gaze of her own camera. Here, the dialogue is not a two-way conversation within the photograph, but a tripartite one among the image, its composer and the viewer...
...through his reign as Canto-pop's top star and Hong Kong film's golden boy. If his eminence and allure could not make him happy, then he was a braver, more cunning artist than anyone suspected. Leslie Cheung danced before us, alluringly, and only let the seventh veil drop last week, revealing the desperate child beneath the diva's brilliant plumage...
...host to the threesome for a few days in October in his one-bedroom apartment a block from a Salt Lake police station. The guests kept to themselves, eating vegetarian meals and sampling Trotta's immense record collection. The two women slept in one bed together, fully clothed and veiled even at night, while Mitchell slept elsewhere in the apartment. "They just looked like a family," said Trotta. And like any father, Mitchell doted on his putative daughter. When Trotta asked her name, Mitchell chimed in: "My Joy in Her." Though Elizabeth hardly spoke throughout her visit, she listened...