Word: pilgrim
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It’s impossible to explain the inexplicable, but I’ve got a theory. Maybe the voters just liked the names Leathernecks, Tigers and Lumberjacks a little better than the Crimson. Or maybe they were just weirded out by our cowboy-looking pilgrim. That’s got to be it, because nothing else makes sense...
...Come As a Pilgrim" TIME's coverage of the pope's 1987 visit...
...being seen working with the U.S. out of fear of reprisals by anti-American thugs. But one hopeful development has been the revulsion voiced by Iraqis at the depraved tactics of al-Qaeda and its sympathizers. "Before, I thought al-Qaeda only killed Americans," says Kadem Saleh, 33, a pilgrim in Najaf. "Now they are killing Iraqis. I say, 'Allah curse them.'" The U.S. still needs to convince more Iraqis that they're safe to do the same. --Reported by Bruce Crumley/Paris, Aparisim Ghosh and Michael Ware/Baghdad, Helen Gibson/London, Scott Macleod/Cairo, Tim McGirk/Islamabad and Elaine Shannon/Washington
...have watched a gang of governors degrade the value of liberty and human life by denying both citizens and foreigners the constitutional rights with which all human beings—not just Americans—must be endowed. As a second-generation Iranian and a descendent of a pilgrim from the Mayflower, I am embittered by the attacks of the hijackers and the current administration on this nation...
...artificially inseminated. As an alternative, Slow Food U.S.A., a group dedicated to preserving unique regional foods, has encouraged more than 30 farmers in 17 states to begin raising heritage turkeys, like the Narragansett and the Bourbon Red, for local markets. These turkeys, descendants of breeds from the Pilgrim era, have richer, more savory meat than their supermarket cousins. Supplies are limited. For information on where to find a heritage turkey, go to www.slowfoodusa.org...