Word: pilgrim
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...case of the bombing of the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad two weeks ago. Iraqis clung to the belief that no homegrown militant group would deliberately kill so many Iraqis. "Only foreigners like the Wahhabis would kill Shi'as without hesitation," said Ali al-Rubieh, a pilgrim visiting Najaf from Basra. "They don't regard us as Muslims, anyway." The White House and Paul Bremer, head of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in Iraq, described the bombing as an act of terrorism, which has become shorthand for al-Qaeda. And in Najaf, reports circulated that the local police had arrested...
...careful look at the manuscript peels back yet another layer. Inserted into the sentence about his pilgrim's progress up Market Street is a phrase, written in the margin, in which he notes that he passed by the house of his future wife Deborah Read and that "she, standing at the door, saw me and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward ridiculous appearance." So here we have, in a brief paragraph, the multilayered character known so fondly to his author as Benjamin Franklin: as a young man, then seen through the eyes of his older self...
Much of the admiration is warranted, and so too are some of the qualms. But the lessons from Franklin's life are more complex than those usually drawn by either his fans or his foes. Both sides too often confuse him with the striving pilgrim he portrayed in his autobiography. They mistake his genial moral maxims for the fundamental faiths that motivated his actions...
...plan allows employees who put in at least half-time at Harvard to take a course every semester for only $40. The educational benefits that Harvard employees receive are matched by their health coverage. Workers are given the choice between 9 health plans, including HMOs like Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and the Tufts Health Plan...
...that I will have to settle to be only the fourth youngest person to make partner at Wasserstein, Weaver and Mathis-Lilley, that no one will be impressed when I’m the eleventh youngest American President and that the time for my attempt to be a pilgrim at a living museum may have past...