Word: goliath
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...Minutes star Jeffrey Wigand to talk to TIME was like "skiing a double black diamond run." The former Brown & Williamson exec is under a court order not to discuss his years in the nicotine business. "But he could talk about his decision to play David to Big Tobacco's Goliath." Shannon, a Washington bureau correspondent who has covered "nearly every Washington scandal since Watergate," won Wigand over with the persistence and honesty that have marked her 27 years as a reporter. "You're very direct," a DEA agent once told her. "That's a good technique." Good journalism...
...remind conservative voters that Pat is the candidate of 100-proof conviction, unlike the wishy-washy front runner and that rich-boy publisher who is spending his way up the opinion polls. It also reminds New Hampshire voters that Pat was the nervy David who tilted at the Goliath of George Bush only four years...
Some of the Bible's most familiar names, places and events, in fact - the Patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; King David, the slayer of Goliath; Moses and the Israelites' flight from bondage in Egypt; Joshua's conquest of the Promised Land and the gloomy prophecies of Jeremiah - are being seen in a new light thanks to a flood of recent discoveries. And archaeologists are always seeking new evidence that might help resolve some still-unanswered questions: Did Moses really exist? Did the Exodus happen? Did Joshua fight the Battle of Jericho? Did Jesus drive out the money changers? When...
Even Berry joined the chorus of would be Davids against the Goliath-like ceiling of the Union...
Last year, it defeated the Bears in overtime to win the Ivy League title. However, last year's victory still burns deep for Brown and even the powers of David may not be enough to triumph over Goliath's angry wrath...