Word: heros
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Saddam has always been obsessed with building. The Pharaonic size of his enterprises--vast palaces, gigantic mosques, even the idea of an atom bomb--reflect his self-image as history's hero. He never forgets he was born in Tikrit, home nine centuries ago to the great Saladin, the Islamic victor in the Crusades. Saddam's latest Baghdad palace features columns topped with huge replicas of his own head bearing Saladin's helmet. He shaped the minarets on the grand new Mother of All Battles mosque to resemble the Scud missiles he fired at Israel during the Gulf War. These...
...Like his hero Stalin, Saddam sees weapons of mass destruction as the great equalizers that give him the global position he craves. A nuke plus a long-range missile make you a world power. Deadly spores and poisonous gases make you a feared one. These are the crown jewels of his regime. He sacrificed the well-being of the Iraqi people and billions of dollars in oil revenues to keep the unconventional weapons he had before the Gulf War and to engage in an open-ended process of acquiring new ones. During the cat-and-mouse game of U.N. inspections...
...recent struggles, Nyweide had one of his best starts of the year against Princeton a month ago. Memories of his two-run complete game victory over the Tigers on Apr. 6 should give him some needed confidence. Nyweide played catch with Mickey Kropf, Harvard’s newest hero, right after Wednesday’s game. Nyweide looked fierce, determined and almost angry—not a man to bet against...
Author Sylvia Ann Hewlett should be hailed as a hero for her enlightening book, Creating a Life: Professional Women and the Quest for Children, but instead she is being criticized as an anti-feminist [SOCIETY, April 15]. Please! Hewlett did not invent female biology; she only reports the facts, saying that at 27 a woman's chances of getting pregnant begin to decline. As a mother who had a child at age 30, I know that parenthood is all about making hard choices. Having a child is a lifestyle choice. If a woman is not willing to adjust her professional...
...Htut became a local hero in part because early in his career he resisted singing the propaganda songs that all musicians in Burma are pressured to record. This has earned him a lifetime of official scrutiny. He was once prohibited from performing because his hair was too long and again later?after a spell in a monastery?because he had no hair. (Today, it's shoulder length.) In 1994, a power outage cut short a show and fans rioted. Zaw Win Htut was blamed and forbidden to play publicly for six months. His fellow rockers get similar treatment. They adapt...