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...long as he is fed fine speeches by the tele-prompter and--with the right lights--looks bracingly American, no one cares if he rides horses when he should be working, or is fed lines by Nancy at press conferences. In all honesty, he would be a great ruler if he were not running the government--something which is even now in question. Were he king, we would sleep soundly as professional ministers handled the challenge of American government...
Wackerbarth always looked for a different angle on the couch: homosexuals in the act, a surrealistic family portrait of a man, woman, and a coyote, and midget actress Zeidah Rubinstein of Poltergeistian fame holding a ruler and magically shrunken sofa. Despite all this ingenuity, the Red Couch never manages to attain true metaphoric nirvana, but it manages to reach the state of a truly useful photographic tool for two talented photographers...
...that often accompanies the assassination of a world leader is 'where to from here, Tuesday's murder of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi places a cloud of uncertainty over the country's future and leaves a gaping hole on the international stage. It was during her 18 years as ruler that the India ushered into being by her father, Nehru, reached maturity and arrived at its status as a world power. During most of her reign Gandhi held together the ethnically divided country which continues to serve as a model for all multi-racial Third World states just...
...readings translate "Kingdom of God" as "realm of God." God as the familiar "King of Glory" of Psalm 24 becomes the "Glorious Ruler," a phrase that sounds more suitable for the dictator of a banana republic. In Matthew 2, the Three Wise Men seek "the ruler of the Jews" even though Jesus was indisputably a male and the translators later allow Pilate to call him "King of the Jews." In Hebrews 1:3, it is God's "Child," not "Son," who has the power to uphold the universe, which sounds like a weighty responsibility for a juvenile...
Then there are the crocodiles. The country's ruler built Yamoussourko his tribal village, into a resort city with broad boulevards and posh hotels. He built a huge palace so he could live amid the town's splendor. Then he put a pool full of crocodiles into a pond in the palace's front yard--crocodiles being the clan's totem. Amid the marble facades and the fountains, they are a reminder of tribal power and tribal superstition...