Word: custodian
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King Fahd of Saudi Arabia gave Harvard Law School $5 million to establish the "Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques" professorship of Islamic law and to fund research on Islamic legal systems...
King Fahd of Saudi Arabia gave Harvard Law School $5 million to establish the "Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques" professorship of Islamic law and to fund research on Islamic legal systems...
...over, gossiped-about, sought-after star in television. When Jay Leno was chosen to succeed Johnny Carson as host of the Tonight Show, it was Letterman, the disappointed office seeker, who drew the sympathy vote. Last fall, when his contract with NBC was coming due after 11 years as custodian of the post-Carson time period, he was besieged with offers. In January, when he announced he was jumping to CBS for a reported $14 million a year, Letterman reached the superstar pantheon. Starting next Monday when his show resurfaces on CBS at 11:35 p.m. Eastern time -- going head...
...money will be used to establish the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques endowed professorship of Islamic law and will also help fund research on Islamic legal systems...
...frat bashes the night before the exam to show he's one of the guys, then sneaks back to his dorm to cram. Perhaps there is as much Nixon in him (the ambition, the intellect, the unkillability) as Kennedy (the charm, the recklessness, his position as centrist custodian of liberal dreams). He will need to be the best of both men if he is to close, as he said last week, "the gap between our words and our deeds...