Word: messiahs
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...businessman Genta Ogami arrived at its Manila headquarters and summoned his top executives. Clad as usual in head-to-toe Versace, Ogami informed his newly appointed Japanese officers how the local staff should be introduced to their new boss. "I want you to tell them there is but one messiah, and he is Genta Ogami," he declared, his surgically enhanced face conveying dead seriousness. He turned to Kensuke Inoue, a trusted associate whom he had installed as bank president, saying, "At this point, I want the speech to hit an emotional peak." Ogami then asked, "Do you think you could...
...gain investor trust and employee loyalty, Ogami deliberately set about developing his own cult of personality. In daily business meetings, his employees were forced to chant his pithy sayings from what he called "the messiah's creed"; those who balked risked getting the sack. Like a video-age Wizard of Oz, Ogami projected to the public a larger-than-life?and largely fictional?image of himself in reams of expensively produced promotional material. He marketed himself as one-part Jet Li and one-part Mohandas Gandhi, a martial arts expert with a cartoon catchphrase: "I will save the world...
...because the U.S. would need to use Saudi and Kuwaiti airspace. More importantly, Washington needs to assure the Arab people that an attack against Iraq is not a war against them all. If America goes it alone, then Saddam will suddenly transform from pariah of the Persian Gulf into messiah of the Middle East...
Some have also complained about holding events in Houses with overtly religious themes. The singing of Handel’s Messiah in Dunster House each year is an example of such a House-sponsored religious event. The event is not mandatory, however, and students can avoid it if they choose. Thus, like the Christmas tree, such events shouldn’t be banned. Moreover, University policy permits all religious groups to hold voluntary, religious events within their confines, just as the Catholic Student Association currently does when it holds Holy Mass in House common rooms...
...skill, this is not an album chock-full of either memorable hooks or more than a few moments that inspire the same emotion as Priest classics like “Breakin’ the Law.” The album’s final track, “Metal Messiah,” shows, however, that Priest still contain the elements for fist-pumping arena action. The most up-tempo song on the album, it blasts open from the outset with a chugging and brutal riff, soon layered with the second guitar ringing out sustained harmonic notes. It quickly stalls...