Word: prophetic
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Three weeks ago, Cal Ripken Jr. added Harvard hockey fan and prophet to his impressive resume. On sophomore Henry Higdon's desk sits a small, framed white business card that reads...
...didn't happen that way, and Forbes hopes the contrast was not lost on voters. Forbes is an amiable prophet, a genial man with a heartfelt belief that if America's entrepreneurial energies are unleashed, its families protected and its politicians chastened, everything will turn out O.K. This may be his most surprising contribution to the race: after a year in which Republicans like Pete Wilson, Pat Buchanan and Phil Gramm tried to outworry each other on affirmative action, immigration and crime, along comes Forbes, who wipes the polarizing issues off the table. In their place is the Reaganesque liturgy...
...leader to drive radicalized conservative ideals toward a new way of governing. In a new TIME/CNN poll of adult Americans, 60% of those surveyed said Gingrich is not "someone you can trust," and 49% said he is "scary." It may be that Gingrich will end up like Moses, the prophet who delivered his people to the promised land but was not allowed to join them there...
...bought from Arab dealers in 1975, had once been used to mark documents. Nahman Avigad of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem identified the impressions stamped into one piece of clay as coming from the seal of Baruch, son of Neriah, a scribe who recorded the doomsday proclamations of the prophet Jeremiah. Another bore the seal of Yerahme'el, son of King Jehoiakim's son, who the Book of Jeremiah says was sent on an unsuccessful mission to arrest both prophet and scribe - again confirming the existence of biblical characters...
...essay was titled "The Prophet and the Professor: Temptation of the Intellect in Flannery O'Conner." According to Hagan, the prize was a $500 award and a copy of Dante's Inferno...