Word: companion
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Gray is almost embarrassed to divulge that the Rhode Island board provides her with twice-weekly personal training sessions. The traveling companion that the Miss America organization provides to every contestant accompanies her on every gym visit and watches her work out, she adds...
...with the blood of several other people, which indicates he may well have shot his enemies and retrieved the arrow. And the friend? Someone else's blood left stains on the shoulders of Otzi's leather jacket in a pattern suggesting the Iceman might have been supporting a wounded companion as they tried to escape...
...airtight case: neither companion nor attackers have been found--not exactly a surprise in a case this old--and most of the evidence is circumstantial. But unless someone comes up with something more, this is the prosecutors' theory, and they're sticking with it. --M.D.L...
...combination of catholic rethinking and Gnostic revelations have reanimated wilder Magdalene speculations, like that of a Jesus-Magdalene marriage. ("No other biblical figure," Schaberg notes, "has had such a vivid and bizarre postbiblical life.") The Gnostic Gospel of Philip describes Magdalene as "the one who was called [Jesus'] companion," claiming that he "used to kiss her on her [mouth]." Most scholars discount a Jesus-Magdalene match because it finds little echo in the canonical Gospels once the false Magdalenes are removed. But it fulfills a deep narrative expectation: for the alpha male to take a mate...
...director Lt. Gen. Michael Hayden testified last fall that the NSA identified Al Hazmi as an al-Qaeda associate in early 1999 and by January 2000 had him and his frequent companion, Al Midhar and Al Hazmi ?in our sights." That month, the pair traveled to Kuala Lumpur to attend a meeting with other bin Laden operatives and were watched by U.S. intelligence...