Word: savioring
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...year into his first term, prices continue to rise, the economy is stagnating and people no longer debate whether Ahmadenijad has any surprise remedies in store. My family's weekly lunches, which used to devolve into loud arguments between Ahmadinejad's supporters, who claimed him as Iran's savior, and critics, who called him a religious thug, now center around the hit television series Narges. "He showed up with so much energy and talk that we were shocked into giving him a chance," says Hooshang Ghanbari, 35, a chemist and one of those former supporters. "Now we know...
...After all, he was supposed to be Team USA's savior, plucked from his perch atop Duke University to salvage America's international basketball pride following a sixth-place finish at the 2002 Worlds and bronze at the Athens Olympics. Hailed as the perfect blend of disciplinarian (he attended West Point), patriot and motivator, Coach K was the man for the job of assuaging millionaire egos and returning basketball gold to its rightful home, the inner-city blacktops and sweaty YMCA gyms in which the sport was reared...
...worker had mentioned him as the leader of “Creciendo en Gracia”—Growing in Faith—the controversial and rapidly growing religious movement she belonged to. According to the news report, the disciples had gathered on Biscayne Boulevard to celebrate their savior, and demonstrate their opposition to other religions. De Jesús’ devotees ripped up copies of the Bible and the Torah, smashed religious statues on the pavement, and tore baptismal gowns and wedding veils, shouting, “Mentiras!” or “Lies...
...combustion engine must have changed the world faster than time changed Borges. History—personal and collective—has sped up, and the battle for how the past is remembered has intensified. A historian might fight it for the dismembered British Empire, Christians for their often misinterpreted savior, and a bored girlfriend for the idyllic first date. But that old cliché about controlling the past only to control the present requires a radical shift. Episodes like the “re-burial” of revolutionary martyr Imre Nagy in Hungary make it so. Nagy...
...give herself traction for kneeling on the floor. It took a bit of work for her to chase down the last of the children; toward the end, she had a scuffle in the family room, sliding around on wet tile below a poster that proclaimed the epithets of Christ: SAVIOR, SHEPHERD, BISHOP OF SOULS. She dripped watery footprints from the tub to her bedroom, where she straightened the blankets around the kids in their pajamas once she was done with them...