Word: guardian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...communist, a convinced communist. For some that may be fantasy but for me it is my main goal." For those who follow the travails of Mikhail Gorbachev, that forthright credo, proclaimed last December, is increasingly shadowed by questions of apostasy. Is this guardian of Marxism really a true believer or the architect of a final loss of faith...
...world's most powerful Germans lives in Rome. Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, 63, is prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and thus guardian of church orthodoxy for 900 million Roman Catholics. It is said that Pope John Paul II makes no important decisions without consulting Ratzinger, who was born in Marktl am Inn, Bavaria. Conservatives are grateful to have the brilliant theologian as an ally in the Vatican; liberals like to suggest that he stands to the right of Torquemada...
...usual quasigeometrical mess of random shapes and wiggles. Glaring from the screen is a squat, intricate medieval demon named Baphomet, who has a cross in his crotch, a flaming eye in his right hand and a nasty leer on his toothy face. Baphomet used to be regarded as the guardian of the gates of hell, and here, on the kitchen counter, in the squiggly confines of the Etch-a-Sketch, he has been quite vividly reproduced...
...have a lawyer, but Tony is a special case. His adoptive parents decided five years after his adoption that Tony had not properly "bonded" with them, and returned him to the state in March. They kept Sam, Tony's natural younger brother. Patrick Murphy, the Chicago public guardian who was appointed to serve as Tony's attorney, says the youngster is an "absolute joy to be around." But there have been scars. Says Murphy: "One of the tragic things is that Tony blames himself...
WHAT'S ANOTHER WORD FOR SEXIST? As a vigilant guardian of feminist orthodoxy, the Coalition of Labor Union Women has released its eagerly awaited Hits and Ms.s awards for 1990. Among the top transgressors: Apple Computer. One of the firm's software programs has a thesaurus that offers only a few synonyms for woman, including "female partner in marriage, wife, lady and Mrs." But when it comes to the entry for man, the list runs on and on: "member of the human race, human being, body, creature, individual, life, mortal, party, person, soul, mankind, flesh, humanity, humankind . . ." What? No "higher...