Word: bearer
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MAGICAL GADGET: The Remembrall, a glass marble that turns red whenever its bearer is forgetting something...
...growls of Otong. The 30-year-old, with dreads down to his waist, personifies the band's DIY ethos, a trait that has earned it a fanatical cult following and critical acclaim. After two albums and a demo in 10 years, the band has emerged as the standard-bearer of Indonesia's fledgling alternative-rock scene...
...Jews into Babylonian captivity, and Saladin, who retook Jerusalem from the Christian Crusaders. He wanted to fulfill the modern-day promise of Egypt's great nationalist Gamal Abdul Nasser, restoring Arab unity and the greater Arab nation to its rightful place in the world. In recent years the standard-bearer of secular Baathism even turned to prayer to exploit Islamic ardor, building gigantic mosques and lacing his speeches with the language of jihad...
...bomb, he adds, was carried in a tartan backpack?fragments of which have been recovered?and was almost certainly detonated while still on its bearer's back. The gruesome evidence for this scenario includes the bomber's remains?two legs cut off at the knees and a face sufficiently intact to allow police artists to draw a likeness?and spatterings of his blood on the roof...
...Even Secretary of State Colin Powell, long the standard-bearer of exhaustive diplomacy on Iraq, appeared late last week to have fallen in step with the hawks' timeline, despite having argued only two weeks ago that the inspectors needed a lot more time. Still, the U.S. looks unlikely to call a halt to inspections and move to military action in the wake of Blix's report. President Bush will likely use his State of the Union address Tuesday to amplify his argument that Saddam has failed to disarm and therefore made military action all but inevitable, but he is unlikely...