Word: martyre
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DIED. WILLIAM OATIS, 83, cold war correspondent for the Associated Press whose 1951 jailing by the Czechoslovak government transformed him into an overnight martyr for free speech; in New York City...
...hard to cry for Princess Diana. When the marriage of the century turned cold, there was the wronged Princess, insistent, inescapable. There were the oh-so-shocking revelations of "Diana, Her True Story." There was the ABC interview in November: the barely uncried tears. Wherever the cameras looked, the martyr Diana was there, comforting lepers, selling her gowns, squabbling over that (deservedly) monstrous divorce settlement...
...said that it might be best if Timothy McVeigh were not executed [CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, June 16], "to deny him his bid for martyrdom, to keep him earthbound and watch him slowly wither...just another old jailbird shuffling around his cell." But McVeigh will never be a martyr in the truest sense of the word, which comes from the Greek word for witness. It connotes one who testifies for his beliefs with the ultimate passionate guarantee of sincerity and a willingness to die for them. McVeigh stood on his right to silence and did not admit to the bombing...
...small turnout means Kabila still has plenty of support. "If Tshisekedi, who is thought to be popular in Kinshasa, can't muster more than 1,000," she says, "Kabila doesn't have to do much of anything. Tshisekedi may just fade away." Besides, Michaels notes, Tshisekedi is hardly a martyr of Congo's new order. "Kabila offered him a place in the government," she says. "But not only did Tshisekedi refuse to accept anything less, he insisted he was still Prime Minister. He insisted that Kabila come...
...wrote that? Sir Thomas More. A knight, a saint, a humanist, a wit, a martyr and a man, famously, for all seasons. And yet a man so besotted by the idea of summer, evidently, that he would foist that season's worst weather off onto winter...