Word: martyrizing
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...that the most effective counterattack may be the least publicly satisfying kind--the quiet intelligence and financial and psychological warfare that can best "drain the swamp" where the terrorists hide. Would a large-scale attack demonstrate American resolve or play into the hands of those hoping to create a martyr? "Not only do you need the courage of your convictions," Adlai Stevenson once said. "Sometimes you need the courage of your doubts...
...well-defined profile of the typical suicidal terrorist. That man would be young, 18 to 24, born in poverty, a victim of some personal tragedy, a despairing zealot with nothing to lose. He would be fanatic in behavior and belief: stern, moralistic, teetotaling. The status of shahid, or holy martyr, would solve his earthly issues in paradise, and someone would give money to his family on earth. If he hailed from the rebel training camps of Afghanistan, where the cult of jihad gets its earthly gunmen, he would be fundamentalist in his faith, ignorant of the outside world, immersed...
...within days, but like a pair of schoolyard bullies the two continued to escalate the matter until Rall brought suit against Hellman for $1.5 million in damages. So to support the legal fees Hellman has put together this "Legal Action Comics." Although Hellman spins himself as a First Amendment martyr, one can safely assume that many of the contributors have been motivated more by a disdain for Rall than a love of the Bill of Rights...
Just in time for the fourth anniversary of her death this month, PRINCESS DIANA's martyr status was reaffirmed last week. First, a dishy book on her sons came out, revealing that Prince William has for years been bringing "tall, leggy blonds" home to his suite at St. James's Palace, for what in Britain is referred to as "tea," claims author Christopher Andersen. Simply shocking behavior from a 19-year-old who expects to be the King of England and was nicknamed "DDG"--for Drop-Dead Gorgeous--by his mum. More surprising perhaps was a report in the conservative...
...once-great designer. But in Saint Laurent's case, there's even more reason to rave. Ever since his business was bought by Gucci, Saint Laurent has been complaining bitterly, telling LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault within hearing distance of a TV camera that he "suffers like a martyr . . . It's terrible, it's terrible." And pleading with Mr. Arnault to "get him out of this hustle." His remorse is baffling to Gucci Group executives who note that Saint Laurent did in fact sell his company - it wasn't stolen from him. But it gives fashion journalists yet another reason...