Word: prophetical
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...modern Americans, Moses' heartbreak, in many ways, ensures his ongoing appeal. Though a champion of freedom, he was also a prophet of disappointment. After leading the Israelites for 40 years, Moses is denied entry to the promised land for disobeying God. No one understood this aspect of the Moses story better than Martin Luther King Jr. In his first national speech, in 1956, he likened the U.S. Supreme Court to Moses for splitting the Red Sea of segregation. On the night before his death 12 years later, King predicted he would not fulfill his dream. "I've been...
Feiler is the author of America's Prophet: Moses and the American Story, from which this article is adapted...
...Harry Potter series, the character Hermione decides to get even when the muckraking Daily Prophet columnist Rita Skeeter starts harassing her and her Hogwarts friends...
...been in the unfortunate aftermath of this overblown spectacle. Should Watson return to Harvard for future games or other activities, we hope that she finds the welcome environment we know and love. And at least at Harvard, no one has to worry about those nosy reporters from the Prophet or the Quibbler...
...controversial Danish cartoonist spoke at Princeton yesterday, revealing that four years after he'd printed a controversial cartoon of the prophet Muhammad with a bomb as a turban, the police still have to escort him to work...