Word: cloak
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...presided over a lively discussion about the rising pressure in the U.S. to give equal instruction time in biology classrooms to an alternative to evolutionary theory called creation science. Most participants agreed that this was a thinly veiled updating of the Biblical version of human origins wrapped in the cloak of science, but they had no real answer to this trend in light of the strong pressure from religious conservatives on local school boards. Dawkins suggested that biology teachers might help their cause by emphasizing that when scientists speak of evolutionary theory, they aren?t necessarily questioning the facts...
...matter of months, Amaro metamorphoses from an ingenuous, generous young priest into one a little older, a little harder, a little more willing to bear the cross of hypocrisy. Amaro quickly quashes his inner turmoil beneath his deadly ambitions and individual political goals: He chooses to replace the delicate cloak of love and naivete with the holy vestments of sanctioned immorality...
...room flat in the east coast town of Berea. In 1964, Kodesh was detained without trial, then exiled to Britain where he continued to work for Mandela's African National Congress. Kodesh returned to South Africa in 1991 as the apartheid system began to crumble. Believing that the cloak-and-dagger life he led would be unfair to any wife and family, Kodesh never married...
...apology really an apology when it seems utterly insincere and comes wrapped in a cloak of cultural superiority? As profound as this question may seem, it is being hashed over not by philosophers but by lawyers. In a swell of nationalistic umbrage last year, a British tabloid, the Daily Mirror, printed the phone number of wealthy American film producer Steven Bing, whom it dubbed Bing Laden, and urged readers to call and berate him. Bing's crime? Denying he was the father of British model Elizabeth Hurley's child (DNA tests later proved his paternity). Bing, seen here with Hurley...
...What we have here is a Republican in Democratic cloak,” Lachelier says. “In this case, the Green is a better Democrat than the Democrat...