Word: protector
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...Dream?marriage into a rich and powerful family?only to have her life virtually destroyed. Host Durrani was born into wealth and advantage and was a glamorous politician's wife?until she went public with her own tale of victimhood. And so, Durrani and Fakhra became a team: privileged protector and wounded ward, trying to repair some of the damage done to Fakhra's life. They have also become twin avengers determined to rip the veil from the cruelty and hypocrisy present in the upper echelons of Pakistani society. This is their story...
...Noah gets persuaded to try a gimmick. They put a ringer from the Negro League in a costume and introduce him as the Golem of Jewish legend. Fishkin, the team's pinch-hitter, explains the legend: "a golem is a creature that man creates to be a companion, a protector or a servant. But only God can grant a creature a soul and inevitably golems become destroyers." And so, as it must, disaster befalls the team when it introduces the creature to a crowd baited into an anti-Semitic frenzy by the local paper...
...mentor and a sounding board. He will let his staff sit in when another Senator calls--sometimes even when the President is on the line--but everyone in the office knows that "when any family member calls, you immediately get up and leave," a former aide says. As chief protector of the Kennedy franchise, "Ted understands that every time there is a Kennedy name on the ballot, the stakes are high for the entire family," says Brown University's West, who wrote a biography of Patrick. By the time Moakley died, on Memorial Day, the Senator's misgivings about...
...summer-vacation nightmare: I'm seven months pregnant, trapped on a long-distance train with my two little girls and too little air-conditioning. My husband can't join us, so I'm the girls' sole protector and supplier of food, drinks and entertainment. For eight hours straight, I'm too worried about a kidnapping at one of the train's many stops even to go to the bathroom by myself or doze...
...Friends' suspicions that Shrestha was the crown prince's protector may not have been entirely misplaced...