Word: cinderella
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...epitomizes the program,” Murphy said yesterday. “He’s the Cinderella story...
...soothsayers—employed post-grads, house tutors and fellow opportunity-hunters—do all of the above. But while you are at it do one other thing: get to the mall Cinderella and buy yourself a gown because at this ball those in pants-suits won’t get past the door...
...Boris pulled me into the broom cupboard ... I felt like Cinderella in a beautiful dream. Boris was like a radiant German knight." ?ANGELA ERMAKOVA
Phoolan Devi's life, as dramatized in the movie "The Bandit Queen," was an extraordinarily violent Indian Cinderella story. But when the laws of probability finally caught up with Devi outside her New Delhi home on Tuesday, its fairytale ending was rewritten. The film helped propel the brutalized teenager-turned-brutal avenger into parliament as a champion of India's marginalized "untouchable" caste. But the real life "Bandit Queen" died Tuesday in a hail of bullets fired by unknown assassins...
...triumph at the polls may have capped a Cinderella story, but the real world is never that simple. She lost her seat two years later, although she regained it the following year. Some were not entirely impressed at her efforts to represent India?s poorest - a prominent human rights group slammed her for siding with carpet manufacturers in her constituency in a fight to overturn a ban on child labor...