Word: goddesses
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...nomination. There are those who are born to be leaders, and she is one of them. Oprah is a healer of lost souls. She continues to lead millions of people to their path of personal happiness. She has a powerful and generous spirit, with the heart of a goddess. She is both admired and loved...
Underpinning the book is the myth of Greek goddess Persephone, who spends half the year with her husband, Hades, god of the underworld, and the other half with her mother Demeter, the harvest goddess...
...Goddess of the Hearth Betty Friedan, the feminist author whose book The Feminine Mystique ignited the women's rights movement, died last month at age 85. Friedan exploded the myth of the happily homebound suburban mother, whose claustrophobic world TIME portrayed in a June 20, 1960, cover story...
...hard to see why Mittal should feel so strongly about retaining family control. Money is in his name: Lakshmi is the Hindu goddess of wealth. But former neighbors say he was born almost penniless, growing up in Sadulpur, a small Rajasthani town in an area of thorn trees and sand dunes in western India, in a house built by his grandfather. The extended family of 20 lived on bare concrete floors, slept on rope beds and cooked on an open fire in the brick yard. "They didn't have any income," says Sushil Kumar Saraogi, 61, editor of the weekly...
...price. They have no other choice. They must buy gold for weddings." Won't Indians stop buying once they begin to understand they can get better returns in stocks and mutual funds? Sitting under a portrait of the seven-kilogram crown of gold that his shop crafted for the goddess Padmavathi Devi, Padmanaban begins to rock with laughter. "It may happen, but it'll take a hundred years...