Judges of the Federal Circuit Court of Australia wear a plain black gown in court without a wig.

The whole is placed on a red mantle with ermine lining and golden fringes and tassels, ensigned with the royal crown.

While they have wrapped themselves in a humanitarian cloak, they are engaging in political propaganda and not in pro Palestinian aid.

For conservative rulers usually fall when they fail to grasp their own vulnerability, especially when the revolutionary challenge is cloaked in conservative garb.

Our generation of Chinese journalists broke from traditional Communist ideas about journalism by the mid 1980 s through extensive reading of Western journalism.

He assumed the mantle again in a 2009 comic book while Wayne was believed dead, and served as a second Batman even after Wayne returned in 2010.

The island was formed as a volcano 1.5 to 2.5 million years ago, the result of a geologic hotspot in the mantle under the oceanic plate that formed the whole of the Society Archipelago.

LONDON In his quest to stabilize his country, Afghanistan s President Hamid Karzai, dressed in white robes, arrived last week in Mecca on what can only be called a diplomatic pilgrimage.

Bush is right to assert that repressive regimes can no longer hide behind a cloak of sovereignty what goes on inside tyrannies and failed states is of vital interest to the rest of the world.

Coupled with internal heating as a result of gravitational sorting between the core and the mantle, there would have been a great deal of mantle convection, with the probable result of many more smaller and much more active tectonic plates than in modern times.

America s dalliances with Islamist leaning political forces and governments have been guided by the notion that the cloak of Islam helps to protect the credibility of leaders who might otherwise be seen as foreign puppets.

But no other ideology was offered, and the crisis the slow rot of the system that became clear during the era of stagnation under Leonid Brezhnev that began with Khrushchev s speech lasted another 30 years, until Mikhail Gorbachev took up his mantle of change.

In the meantime, the return to the idea of a just cause carries big risks, especially evident when, as happened in Georgia, a great power claims the mantle of a protector of the rights of its nationals in a neighboring country.

Fayyad is the first Palestinian leader who did not emerge from the Fatah movement, and he may thus understand what other Palestinian leaders failed to comprehend, mired as they were in a toxic combination of self righteous ideology and violence.