Word: prophetic
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COUNSELLOR TO PRESIDENT Karen Hughes High Prophet...
Ever since, Bush has made the nickname his signature gesture of outreach. There is scarcely a legislator left in Texas who hasn't been renamed by Bush. His staff members, from the "High Prophet" (Karen Hughes) to "Big Country" (Joe Allbaugh) to "Boy Genius" (Karl Rove), were all tagged years ago. Members of the press covering Bush now answer like so many fighter pilots to handles as varied as "Stretch," "Pancho," "Grandpa" and "Dulce." And in Washington, Bush has already started spraying nicknames at delegations of visiting lawmakers. George Miller, the hulking Democrat from California, is now known...
...Bible tells of the prophet Elijah, who, having disposed of certain irritating pagans, feared for his life and fled to the wilderness, where he lay himself down under a broom tree and prayed...
...women raped by Larry Harper in the early 1990s would probably recoil at his name's being even remotely linked to the prophet, but Gina Holder, who attended Bible studies with Harper following his escape from a Texas prison last month, says the convicted rapist knew his Scripture with a prophet's acumen. Holder knew Harper as "Brother Jim," one of seven companions who stayed at the Woodland Park, Colo., RV park that she co-owns. She remembers him in khakis, penny loafers, buttoned-down shirts. "He was very preppy," says another Bible-study participant. "He looked like a Mormon...
Burns is a historian working on film, however, not a prophet. Despite the huge number of jazz reissues carrying the series' imprimatur that are currently weighing down the record racks, neither is he a promo guy flacking for the future. His object is not to move CDs, but hearts. He means to reinvigorate the American imagination with the glories of this music, and at the same time, to remind and warn viewers that jazz was born out of a fierce challenge to the abiding shame of American racism. If that means looking back longer than looking forward, then that...