Word: cloak
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...website of the offshore Secrets Network is one of many that promise average investors entry into the rarefied world of private banking. Set yourself up in a Caribbean or Alpine tax haven, and you are in league with the superrich--with Marc Rich!--who cloak their identities and shield their assets from prying governments. With your shell company as host of a nameless Visa or Amex card, you are trading stocks, purchasing cars, paying bills and getting cash from ATMS--and leaving no trail. You are thumbing your nose at grasping creditors, ex-spouses, plaintiff's lawyers and tax collectors...
There is a natural tension between the armed services and academia and this tension flourishes here at Harvard. We order our Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) peers off-campus to practice their patriotism and though we may cloak this distaste in the contemporary persuasive cloth of gay rights, our true military aversion runs much deeper than that. The hierarchy, order and discipline necessary to maintain the military threaten our coveted sense of individuality; the brute spectacle of war comes as an affront to the practice of reasoned discourse that we strive so seriously to perfect. War as a whole might...
...women from working "we were so sad, so angry," she remembers. But after a few months stuck at home, Shahnaz, 43, began reading to keep herself occupied; law books, mostly, and a history of Afghanistan. When the Taliban forced all women to wear the burka, that long all-encompassing cloak that hides women's bodies, faces and identities, Shahnaz bought the cheapest she could find, figuring that the law would not last. Though she had always made do with a simple headscarf in deference to Islamic modesty, as a kid she had played dress ups in her mother's burka...
...hard-liners criticized the hosting of U.S. troops for the Gulf War. As a result, the Islamic establishment has grown in size and strength to the point that Saudi leaders are terrified of confronting it head on. The religious sheiks give the al Saud Dynasty a vital cloak of protection against political opponents. So does its responsibility for hosting the annual Hajj pilgramage to Mecca, which got underway last week with some 2.5 million Muslims from around the world...
...this nervous post-Sept. 11 America, the word “security” has become a Harry Potter-style cloak of invisibility, rendering unnoticeable all sorts of measures that would previously have roused our ire. We allow our bags to be searched and our IDs to be checked because we believe in makes us safer, because questioning such measures makes us look suspicious and calls our loyalty into question. Businesses are counting on our silent compliance because we all fear that others will think we have something to hide if we protest. We have become a nation of citizens...