Word: guardian
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Patients think of him as a guardian angel. Nurses call him a god. Virtually every week for the past three decades, pioneering trans-plant surgeon John Najarian -- an Olympian figure with the physique of a football player and the self-confidence to match -- has ventured into the operating room at the University of Minnesota Hospital to battle death. And more often than not, he has won. Patients he has saved can vividly recall the surge of hope they felt when Najarian gave them his simple...
Campbell is a Guardian on Peninsula, a conservative publication on campus. In addition to Campbell, Peninsula Guardian G. Brent McGuire '95 and Peninsula council member Brian E. Malone '96, who are both Crimson editors, also held executive board positions on the HRC during Campbell's administration...
...Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach, Virginia, return, again and again, to the spiritual consequences for parents and children. "We can act as healers," one student points out. Kohm agrees, then adds, "One of the things we can do as Christ's attorneys is be the guardian ad litem for the children...
Brian Bedford, the Shakespearean veteran who won a Tony nomination last year for Timon of Athens, has the central role in both plays. In the first, School for Husbands, he's the overprotective guardian of a young woman (Patricia Dunnock) whom he intends to marry. She, however, has other plans-namely, getting the guardian to unwittingly bring her together with the younger fellow she really loves. Bedford, wearing long Ben Franklin locks and mugging dryly to the audience, helps overcome the sense that these are stock characters whom Moliere would develop more fully in later works...
...lamb's constant repetition of the 'baa' sound, holding both the first two letters of the word 'bad' and a subtle, rhyming link to 'ma,' or mother, indicates her mingled defiance and inability to communicate with her putative guardian. Clearly the lamb has failed to find her voice as a small and fuzzy animal. Even though she is disempowered by the human-exalting hierarchy and the oppressive male sheep, she can still express her hostility toward the primal mother-figure represented by Peep...