Word: legendizing
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...Jerome Bettis and the Pittsburgh Steelers closed the book on a storybook season at Super Bowl XL in Detroit Sunday, the season of another Steelers legend was just kicking into high gear...
...other talents. It's a combination of luck and preparation in order for all this to happen. You know how many brilliant performances there were this year? But it's almost like what they say in [Paulo Coelho's] The Alchemist, "When you seek out your own personal legend, the universe conspires...
...blame some of this on General Electric legend Jack Welch, who in 2001 was given the use of a plush New York City apartment and epic amounts of other goodies upon retiring from the company - part of a hush-hush deal that came to light only after his ex-wife made it an issue in divorce proceedings. Welch later agreed to pay for his perks. But the Securities and Exchange Commission has taken a keen interest in undisclosed pay ever since, and two weeks ago proposed tough new disclosure rules. ?We?ll see all kinds of stuff? revealed this spring...
...historians to view it with suspicion. "If you look at the text, there are really some things that are a bit strange," says Nicolas Standaert, an expert on the Ming era at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. Standaert points to passages circled in red?which the map's legend says are copied from the 1418 map?that contain words or terms not used at that time. Among them is the map's word for the Christian God and its description of what is now the South China Sea as "the Great Qing Sea," a term not in use until...
...Heritage’s study has some serious flaws. General speaking, it claims to show a military that looks just like America, but it winds up with a picture of an institution that falls somewhere between the general population and the dirt poor army of popular legend. Heritage claims that the average military recruit comes from a family just as well off as the average American. While it’s difficult to tell from their methodology section, it seems like Heritage compared the family income of military recruits with the income of all American families. They estimated that...