Word: demigods
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...idea is catching on.'' Group after group of young students continued to march past our house. Meiping, who had gone outside to watch, told us that the students were shouting, ''Protect Chairman Mao.'' ''Who is supposed to be threatening him?'' I asked. In his lofty position as a demigod, Mao seemed beyond human reach. ''I'll see Auntie Li home,'' said Meiping. ''I don't think there are any buses. The streets have been taken over by the paraders.'' Li Zhen and I said goodbye. That was the last glimpse I ever had of my dear old friend. A month...
...innocent not to worry that in the 21st century, money - especially the salaries being lavished on coaches like Saban - may extinguish the few embers of higher-education integrity still left glowing on the university gridiron. Alabama is so desperate to return to the football powerhouse days of its late demigod coach Paul "Bear" Bryant that it will pay Saban $4 million a year. That's a surreal record for college football, but it's hardly the exception today, when universities feel they have to match the sky-high salaries offered by the pros: just below Saban is Oklahoma...
...Sunni jihadis. After all, American soldiers had recently been raiding the giant Baghdad slum, attacking Shi'ite militias that enjoy a great deal of popular support there. Inevitably, some Shi'ites put two and two together - and got 22: On Saturday a cleric representing Moqtada al-Sadr, who enjoys demigod status in Sadr City, accused the U.S. of ganging up with Sunni insurgents and jihadis against the Shi'ites...
Then, the demigod intervenes...
...Etiology and Mechanistic Pharmacology,” a once-weekly three-hour lecture which invites scientists, entrepreneurs, and ethicists to speak on a dozen issues at the intersection of modern medicine and organic chemistry. Last year, a few of Harvard’s top scientists, such as stem cell demigod Prof. Douglas A. Melton and former National Institute of Mental Health chief (and now University provost) Steven E. Hyman dropped by, as well as a few HMS researchers and pharmaceutical company executives. And what course on medicine and society wouldn’t be complete without a visit from Prof...