Word: demigods
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...laws. The country's government is based not on a constitution but on a fluid dynamism where power shifts with personalities and personal alliances. While the Chinese people have learned to fear the depredations of megalomaniacs, they are also afraid that their country will fall apart without a demigod at the helm...
...with people connected to Evita, dead or alive. These journalistic starting points facilitate flashbacks relating scenes from Evita's youth, rise to power and rapid physical decline. But which Evita is the real one: the illegitimate little girl who must sneak into her father's funeral or the demigod standing next to Peron on the balcony of the national palace...
...always wanted a chance to speak with this demigod of the mathematics world. At age 21, Kedlaya is considered by many to be the best college-age student in math in the United States...
...according to those who know him well, either decided to run or decided when he will decide. Many politicos view a Powell run for the White House as a mirage because it rests on a popularity that is broad but untested. Right now he is still the Desert Storm demigod, but once he has to answer attack ads and identify programs to ax, his stature will surely deflate. Even assuming he could survive this inevitable erosion of esteem to retain the margin of victory in November 1996, it's not easy to chart any route that would...
Parcells is a football demigod. He is the one of the last of those coaching dinosaur: the disciplinarian. He doesn't coddle the players (like a recently fired Boston coach did) and he doesn't protect them from the media cutthroats. He doesn't heap praise on them or soothe their egos. He screams. And, he does it with artery-popping intensity...