Word: cloak
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...reputation for fiercely independent faculty. Probably not too well. My image of the quintessential professor here is Professor Evangelinus Apostolides Sophocles, University Professor of Ancient, Byzantine, and Modern Greek from 1860 to 1883, who lived by himself in Holworthy Hall, kept chickens in his room and wore a blue cloak and wild beard, that made, in the words of Professor Henry W. Longfellow, “Diogenes a possibility...
...Prudent but, as The Ground Truth shows, imprecise. You are told about a woman who put a hand inside her cloak to pull something out and, with a split second to decide whether she?s friend or foe, gun her down - noticing too late that what she reached for was a red flag. Or you see a car approach. Chad Reiber, an Army ranger, says: "I engaged a vehicle with a 50-caliber machine gun and blew it up. It was a pretty big explosion. I learned they had gasoline and a checkpoint book. I remember laughing after I blew...
...main reason Iranians dislike the government's Islamic generosity is because in general, they believe their leaders use Islam as a cloak for their own economic greed. When police started confiscating illegal satellite dishes earlier this month - ostensibly satellite is banned for its impure Western content - in about two days the whole city knew exactly why. The story went like this: the son of a prominent regime-connected ayatullah had recently begun importing small, laptop-size satellite dishes. If the government rounded up the ungainly, rooftop dishes, and flooded the market with the discreet little one, everyone would be forced...
...thousands of innocent soldiers and civilians are in jeopardy. Richard Busch Leesburg, Virginia, U.S. Israel repeatedly claims that the necessity of its efforts to hobble Hizballah's operations justifies endangering Lebanese civilians. Meanwhile, the U.S. speaks volumes in its silence and continued support of Israel, Britain hides behind the cloak of diplomacy, and other European countries are crippled by their indecisiveness. Even Middle Eastern nations are doing little to support Lebanon. Clearly the U.N. is a dying institution that cannot protect those who are most in need. Who will be next in terrorism's variation on Russian roulette? Putri Norlisa...
...Even those filmgoers who are averse to the minimalist aesthetic can find reasons to praise Climates. Here are four. One is that under its cloak of aesthetic severity, Climates has a beating heart, aware of the charm, selfishness and contradictions in any person. Another is that, though Ceylan the director loves taking long closeups of Ceylan the actor, he's worth it; this is a face, craggily attractive, that rewards extended attention. A third is that the movie occasionally reveals a wry, wise sense of humor. On his second encounter with Serap, she is the one eager to have...