Word: savioring
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...actress named Maria (Lisa Werlinder), and he owns a chic, prospering restaurant in Stockholm. Best of all, he has escaped his oppressive family and its grim, old-economy business--a Danish steelworks. But then his father commits suicide, leaving the business a mess, with Christoffer as its only possible savior. As he takes up his task, The Inheritance recounts the shutting down of his spirit--or should we say the flowering of his inner monster--in a formally elegant, subtly savage and powerfully affecting film...
...ancient traditions of the Russian Orthodox Church is the yurodivy, the holy fool who naively yet fearlessly speaks truth to power. Someone like that appeared on July 14 in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Savior, at the memorial service for Paul Klebnikov, the murdered editor in chief of Forbes Russia. A scruffily dressed middle-aged man in the congregation started speaking to no one in particular. "That's what happens when you write about the seriously rich. Of course, they won't find anyone," the man said, referring to the investigation. "They'll pick up some tramp ? and announce...
...diplomatic skills of Brahimi, who is due to return to New York City within days to brief the Security Council on the outlines of Iraq's new political structure. Given the Administration's original ambitions for remaking the Middle East in Iraq's image, Brahimi is an unlikely savior. Despite his talents as a diplomat, he is a symbol of the secular Arab status quo, and as a member of Algeria's governing council in 1992, he helped put down Islamic radicals who were starting to win elections. Throughout his 40-year diplomatic career, he has shown a preference...
HALLIBURTON: Savior or profiteer? A look at the contractor under fire in Iraq and at home...
...endangered Hubble Space Telescope may have life yet, thanks to a NASA-sponsored program to develop a robot that could be its remote-control savior. For all the yeoman's work Hubble has done--peering deeper into the universe and farther back in time than eyes or earthbound instruments had ever managed--its prospects looked bleak a few months ago. The telescope was facing eventual loss of power and gyroscope failure, which would cut short its life-span by years. But given President Bush's ambitious plans for a manned moon and Mars program, NASA was looking for projects...