Word: idol
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...searching for the answers, which he finds in the form of an epiphany-inducing book buried in the sands of the local beach. The book inspires Shaun to take action, and he dedicates himself to getting into Stanford, where Marcus Skinner, the author of the book and his newfound idol, is a professor. Given his impeccable academic record, his acceptance is a sure bet. But thanks to the bumblings of his absent-minded guidance counselor, the wrong transcript gets mailed to the prestigious university, and Shaun tastes the bitterness of rejection. Not one to concede without a fight, he resolves...
...Junichiro Koizumi An outsider with personality. An idol with great hair. The longtime pol positioned himself as a challenger to the dry bureaucrats that have overseen Japan's decade-long slump. Desperate for change, the public overwhelmingly backed him. Which could be why he retains popular support, despite still festering economic problems, reforms yet to be enacted and still empty promises of better days...
Here, a story with a Dickensian twist for Christmas. A boy confined to a wheelchair with a life-threatening disease makes three wishes: to meet his idol, Jimmy Carter; to publish a volume of his poetry; and--because he has a keen nose for commerce--to get on the Oprah Winfrey Show to hawk his books. Success! MATTIE STEPANEK, 11, got all his wishes and then one: a contract from Hyperion for three books to join his best-selling volumes Heartsongs and Journey Through Heartsongs. Stepanek, of Upper Marlboro, Md., has a rare form of muscular dystrophy that keeps...
...Miss You, Hate You” bears a plagiarism suit-inducing similarity to Matchbox 20’s “Push.” If Vaughan was able to make people care about the blues when rock ruled the roost, perhaps Bonamassa will learn from his idol and stay away from the mainstream. —James A. Crawford
...Ignorance about the Middle East runs even deeper, and has a long history. Armstrong, in "Muhammad", notes that during the time of the First Crusades, many Westerners believed that Muslims were idol-worshippers (actually, the Prophet tore down the idols in Mecca). And Dante, in "The Divine Comedy," placed Muhammad in the Eighth Circle of Hell with the schismatics (even pagans such as Plato and Aristotle got relatively better treatment, with placement in the more scenic Limbo). Much more recently, the novelist Fay Weldon ("Affliction") wrote this about Islam: "The Koran is food for no-thought...