Word: downtrodden
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...England Patriots as a fourth-string quarterback in 2000. He practiced with a group of rookies, "many of whom already had one foot in a liquor distributorship back home," writes Pierce in this bright biography. But soon Brady was guiding an unlikely dynasty, winning three Super Bowls for a downtrodden franchise. Pierce traces the sources of Brady's trademark selflessness, from growing up with three elder sisters to his struggles at Michigan. "If you choose to put yourself apart," Brady says, "you know, play tennis...
...picket lines and with old-fashioned Christians who inspire him because of "their lack of embarrassment about wanting to do good in the world." He's scathing about those from the mall churches: "It's interesting how rarely you hear them speaking about the poor, the downtrodden, the foolish and the ugly: all the people their prophet worried about...
...Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. "The guiding principle in the crackdown is the old mind-set: toughness works. The leadership has a two-pronged strategy. On the one hand, it tries to adopt policies that appear to be populist and friendly to the downtrodden, such as cutting rural taxes and increasing spending. On the other, it intensifies political control and targets troublemakers...
...year of high school football, plus a lot of pickup games in empty lots. He is impersonated here, quite appealingly, by Mark Wahlberg. There also really was (and is) a football coach named Dick Vermeil (Greg Kinnear) who came out of a college career to coach the then downtrodden Eagles and, as a gimmick designed mostly to hearten their discouraged, if ever raucous, blue collar fans, held open the open tryout at which Papale was discovered...
...covering everything from friendships to protecting the environment. And for Western youths, taking up Islam can also serve as an outlet for rebellion. A majority of converts, especially in Western Europe, are in their late teens or 20s. "Islam is a kind of refuge for those who are downtrodden and disenfranchised because it has become the religion of the oppressed," says Farhad Khosrokhavar, a Paris professor and the author of several books on Muslim extremism. "Previously--say, 20 years ago--they may have chosen communism or gone to leftist ideologies. Now Islam is the religion of those who fight against...