Word: shrouds
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This underlying tendency towards amoral investment policy is heightened by the ACSR's decision to restrict the Harvard community's access to investment decisions. The ACSR operates in a shroud of secrecy, and gives the same reason so many other Harvard institutions do as a justification--if the meetings were public, people would not be free to speak their minds and play devil's advocate on issues so the committee can consider all possible viewpoints. This defense of secrecy is simplistic--all too often the purpose of secret deliberations is to protect from the public's rightful wrath ACSR members...
Burial Cloth. At the entrance to the Civic Center waved a giant banner: WELCOME TO THE EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS. COME AND SEE THE FACE OF JESUS ON HIS BURIAL CLOTH. Inside, pilgrims viewed photos of the Holy Shroud of Turin, the purported burial cloth on which Jesus' image appears. Near by there were booths offering clerical clothing and T shirts, booths advocating sainthood for Italian Missionary Samuel Mazzuchelli and publicizing struggling Catholic colleges...
...left a shroud on my soul, like a dirty cataract...
...sealift-Atlantic Richfield, Standard Oil Company of Ohio and British Petroleum-have maintained that air and overland shipments of some equipment would allow at least a trickle of oil to flow on schedule, regardless of this year's ice. But last week's delay threw a shroud over even that promise, and any major sealift probably will have to wait until next year. If nothing else, the professional meteorologists used by the oil companies might learn a lesson from the Eskimos. Last summer they reportedly predicted that ice would prevent passage to Prudhoe...
Secrecy in Switzerland is a big business, encased in laws that carry stiff penalties for violations like breaking the shroud of anonymity around numbered bank accounts. Sometimes, though, Swiss secrecy gets in the way of enforcement of other countries' laws. In one current case, the aftermath has been both bizarre and tragic; it includes the jailing of a former executive of a giant drug company, the suicide of his wife and a threat to have two high officials of the European Economic Community (Common Market) arrested if they set foot in Switzerland...