Word: guardian
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Having run away from his guardian to avoid an arranged marriage, he joined a law firm in Johannesburg as an apprentice. Years of daily exposure to the inhumanities of apartheid, where being black reduced one to the status of a nonperson, kindled in him a kind of absurd courage to change the world. It meant that instead of the easy life in a rural setting he'd been brought up for, or even a modest measure of success as a lawyer, his only future certainties would be sacrifice and suffering, with little hope of success in a country in which...
...long before the ruling Frelimo government signed a peace accord with Renamo in October 1992, Felfiel escaped and walked for three days back to Taninga. The village allowed him to undergo the forgiving rites of traditional cleansing. Felfiel's mother went to the spiritual guardian for a muti, a physical and psychological purgative. It took three days for Felfiel to vomit up the "bad things" he had done and earn atonement. After the cleansing, Felfiel stopped having nightmares, and his neighbors embraced him once again...
Claire Armitstead, arts editor, The Guardian...
...heartening to be reminded that Harvard students are people, too. Thank you for being my guardian angels today. I was truly touched by your kindness. ANGELA C. WALCH '98 March...
...choral group and art. Still dealing with a weight problem, she didn't have a boyfriend. But it was a more fulfilling time. In her senior year, Lewinsky made valedictorian in a class of seven. In the school yearbook Monica's senior year, a classmate calls Lewinsky her "guardian angel." Lewinsky's page included dedications to her parents, her brother and her friends and a paean to her favorite soap opera, Days of Our Lives. The page is also dotted with quotes from Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, William Wordsworth--and Dr. Seuss ("It's fun to have...