Word: cloaks
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...just another religious person exploiting people’s emotional vulnerability after a national tragedy for my sectarian goals. I am a follower of Jesus. But let me explain why I think our emotional vulnerability is a healthy crossroads for all of us—under the cloak of crowd behavior, we can feel safe finally unveiling the deep loneliness and insecurity that saturates our souls under the surface of confident competence...
Before Omar left Kandahar, he opened the marble vault in the city's most venerated shrine and held up the Respectable Cloak of the Prophet Muhammad, seen publicly only two times previously in more than a millennium. The sight inspired Taliban foot soldiers for a final assault against Kabul in 1996. By then even the U.S. was quietly encouraging Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to back a movement they hoped might eliminate the heroin trade, open access for a gas pipeline and confine Shi'ite Iran...
...usual, Aaliyah arrived dressed all in black. She liked to cloak herself in shadow and secrecy, like a latter-day Greta Garbo. She was born in Brooklyn and raised in Detroit (real name: Aaliyah Haughton). When she released her first album, "Age Ain't Nothing But a Number" back in 1994, she was given to wearing sunglasses in most of her photo shoots and public appearances. Later, she took to sweeping her long black hair in front of one eye, a la Veronica Lake. You could never get a good look at her face, never get a good read...
...until capitalism works its wonders on the mainland, the U.S.-China-Taiwan relationship is a game of three-dimensional chess in which the most complex dimension may well be the words chosen by Washington to cloak its policy ambiguities - and complexities of language have never been President Bush's strong suit...
Given the tattered cloak of secrecy around this contemporary Square speakeasy, its legal survival over the eight years since it was purchased by Paul C. McCarthy ranks as one of the wonders of the contemporary Cambridge world. Its continued operation is even more remarkable in the context of current trends in area nightlife--after MIT first-year Scott Krueger died of an alcohol overdose in 1997, city authorities have cracked down on bars and clubs serving minors all over the Boston area...