Word: raja
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...Imam Khomeini's follower, the parliament's child and Banisadr's brother." With that modest assessment of his qualifications, Mohammed Ali Raja'i last week accepted his election as Iran's Prime Minister. Raja'i, as Winston Churchill said about another man, has every reason to be modest. His meager government experience was limited to a ten-month stint as Minister of Education, a post in which he mainly presided over the closing of schools and universities in the name of "Islamization." President Abolhassan Banisadr, who is constitutionally responsible for nominating the Prime Minister...
...Mustachioed One." In South America, such aliases as El Aleman (the German), Cara de Culebra (Snake Face) and El Carnicero (the Butcher) are common. One particularly brutal torturer at Chile's Tejas Verdes camp near San Antonio used to tell prisoners his name was Pata en la Raja, meaning Kick...
...Bombay, India, Doctoral Student Raja Dhale was distressed by the continued oppression of the harijan, or untouchable caste, to which he belonged. After reading about the Black Panthers in TIME, he founded the Dalit (Oppressed) Panthers, a group composed almost entirely of members of the untouchable caste who have since attracted considerable attention by protesting the iniquities of Indian society in polemics and poetry that have come to be known as "Dalit literature...
Most gurus teach one or another form of yoga (the Sanskrit word means a yoking, or union), practical methods by which the student can strive to unite with Brahman. The discipline that concentrates on psychophysical exercises to purify and strengthen the entire body is called hatha-yoga. Raja-yoga employs meditative exercises to focus the mind, and bhakti is the yoga of love and devotion...
...founded the Harvard Center for Research in Creative Altruism. As the Center's first and only chairman, he was often criticized. His research into the lives of 4600 Christian saints, and 500 living American altruists, his descriptions of five-dimensional love, and his study of Raja-Yoga techniques led some to regard him mistakenly as a ludicrous eccentric...