Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Throughout Asia today, in one of the little remarked but momentous sea changes of modern times, the sandaled monks with shaved heads have abandoned Buddha's command to be still...and have plunged deep into politics. While most continue their usual duties of meditating...teaching and begging, more and more of them are busy issuing political manifestoes, organizing riots and working for the downfall of governments. From the Indian Ocean to the Sea of Japan, from the Irrawaddy to Tonkin Bay, [Buddhist monks] are causing political waves whose final effect they themselves cannot foresee but which are vitally affecting...
CUERPETINO, Ca: Ah, the loneliness of command. Vacationing on a distant Hawaiian isle, Steve Jobs ? interim Apple CEO ? will mull over suggestions that he drop the "interim" from his title. "I'm trying to get away for a week, to walk on the beach and chill out and think about things," Jobs told reporters Thursday after hinting that he "might" assume permanent leadership of the struggling computer firm he co-founded in his parents' garage...
...feminists and other critics of the Promise Keepers. It is from the Gospel of Matthew: "Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you." On that evening in Oklahoma, amid the lilting melody of a seven-piece band, that commandment at first brims with a kind of inclusiveness as whites, African Americans, Asians, Hispanics as well as one Croatian immigrant clap their hands, rocking with the zealotry of the converted as they all sing...
That conversation would never happen, and there would be no tomorrows for Dodi and Diana. That night their lives would be in the hands of a third person. While paparazzi may have hovered around the fatal event, the car was under the command of Henri Paul, al Fayed's trusted deputy security chief at the Ritz. It was a misplaced trust: a series of autopsy results showed not only that Paul was drunk, his blood alcohol nearly four times the legal driving limit, but also that he had ingested a troubling combination of prescription drugs. In reconstructing the last hours...
...more royal than the royals. She had a higher station than the Queen of England; she was the titular young monarch of her own country and of every other place in the world. She was the sentimental favorite figurehead, who was authorized to sign no treaties, command no armies, make no wars. All she had was the way she looked and sounded and behaved. No model or actress could hold a candle to her. She was the image every child has of a princess--the one who can feel the pea under the mattresses, who kisses the frog, who lets...