Word: conqueror
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...nutrient-packed biscuits that stretch the definition of cookie. The cookie-meal plan has actually been around since 1975, but the quest for the magic diet solution goes back much further. There's a (possibly apocryphal) story that after becoming too fat to ride his horse, William the Conqueror devised an alcohol-only diet in 1087. The monarch didn't grow thinner; instead, he died later that year after falling from his beleaguered steed, leaving his subjects to struggle with finding a coffin big enough to fit the corpulent king. (See the 2009 Year in Health...
...Mahinda the Conqueror The statements made by Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa in his interview with TIME should serve as a lesson for the leaders of larger regional neighbors such as India and Pakistan - countries where extremists, terrorists and separatists have made the lives of common people miserable [July 27]. Rajapaksa, though, has smashed a longstanding Tamil insurgency and united the country. He truly means what he says when he declares Sri Lankans are "my citizens. I am responsible for them." He has aptly demonstrated how a country should be ruled. Brij Agarwal, Bhopal, India...
...literature evoked Cleopatra as a lustful seductress, corrupting the stoic Roman men who strayed into her orbit. European empires seized upon this metaphor of temptation and decadence: after Napoleon's ill-fated invasion of Egypt, the French government issued a commemorative coin nevertheless, depicting France as a virile Roman conqueror standing over a bare-breasted, feminine figure of the East...
...that he could seduce the hearts of a nation. He even managed to win the hearts of the people with a mega-popular television show. Yet his weakness for power and narcissistic self-obsession twisted his personage beyond any other explanation but one: a demon.“The Conqueror,” Jan Kjaerstad’s second book in a trilogy that also includes “The Seducer” and “The Discoverer,” doesn’t spin a single yarn so much as weave from several. This web struggles...
...life-size portrait of Dostum standing beside U.S. General Tommy Franks. During a visit by TIME, workmen were putting the final touches on an immense gold-painted crown that spans the compound's entry gate. The crown was modeled on that of the 14th century Central Asian military conqueror Tamerlane. The money to build the house, Dostum says, came from Afghan President Hamid Karzai, for whom he was military chief of staff. According to Dostum, Karzai pays him $80,000 a month to serve as his emissary to the northern provinces. "I asked for a year up front in cash...