Word: patronizing
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...small shop in one of this city's largest Mexican neighborhoods, Laura Martinez scans rows of candles bearing the images of Saint David, Saint Raphael and Saint Jude. But she overlooks those and grabs two candles featuring Santa Muerte - Saint Death. "She's my patron saint," says Martinez, 24, who arrived here from a town outside Mexico City about six years ago. "You worship her," she says of Santa Muerte. "It's my religion...
...Tshabalala-Msimang, best known for her recommendation of garlic and beetroot as AIDS treatments. And Mbeki himself has expressed skepticism that HIV causes AIDS. But Madlala-Routledge's true crime, say close observers, was lack of loyalty to Tshabalala-Msimang, a key Mbeki ally. Tshabalala-Msimang hardly helped her patron's case when, in September, she went to court to try to stop the Sunday Times from publishing copies of her medical records, along with allegations of excessive drinking and abusive behavior when she was in the hospital for a shoulder operation...
Those were eight tough years when Vaclav Moravec had no choice but to live in the Czech city of Pilsen, the cradle of the famed pilsner beer. That's because for more than 40 years, the 65-year-old retired engineer has been a daily patron of Budweiser - not that pale thirst-quencher produced by Anheuser-Busch, but the hearty, bitter lager from the small Budejovicky Budvar brewery in the South Bohemian town of Ceske Budejovice. The town's German name, Budweis, gave both beers their name - and cause for their nearly century-long trademark war in courts worldwide. "Every...
...without a university education would be familiar with. As the Declaration says, "scholars know nothing about how he acquired the breadth and depth of knowledge displayed in the works." And so doubting scholars look to well-traveled writers and aristocrats - essayist Francis Bacon; poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe; theater patron Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford - as the more likely candidates...
...hope for is a few kilos of sardine-sized fish. Overfishing is partly to blame. But Bun Neang knows of another reason Tonle Sap's big game have all but disappeared. "China," he says of the country that is now tiny Cambodia's biggest foreign investor and economic patron. "Instead of sharing the Mekong, they dam the river and keep it for themselves...