Word: saviors
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...Orange, we are seeing some magnificent passing skills and great boxing out by the reds. Is it ever too early to start recruiting for the Crimson? On another note, even these 10 12-14 old boys are ignoring the HC cheerleaders. 4-0 Orange. And I'm bored. Savior, thy name is Facebook...
...Musharraf Farooqi, the 39-year-old translator, is an unlikely savior. Growing up in Pakistan, he read of Amir Hamza's exploits in abridged Urdu versions adapted for children - virtually the sole form in which the epic survived into the 20th century. Farooqi, who admits to not being the most diligent student, would drift into daydreams inspired by the stories in class, imagining, he says, that he was a demon "running around with a tree trunk and clobbering humans with it." In university, he frequently shirked his prescribed engineering curriculum for a pile of dog-eared folk tales scrounged from...
...both sides, there was an undercurrent of terror beneath the indignation. Repenting and accepting Jesus as my lord and savior is on my To-Do list somewhere between “Pick up your dry cleaning” and “Win a Nobel Peace Prize.” But when I run into groups like Repent America, I start rethinking my life. “Things do not exist simply because you do or do not believe in them,” Nathan said. “If you don’t believe in trucks, that won?...
...Beyond the fact that some people want to root for a team without having to root for its savior, making religion an organizational conviction raises plenty of questions. The Rockies don't exclude non-Christians - pitcher Jason Hirsh is Jewish - but if "Christian values" seep too deeply into the team's thinking, isn't discrimination, even of the subconscious kind, a danger...
Saddam Hussein's last defense minister was saved from the gallows last month by an unlikely savior - the United States. On the night of September 10, Sultan Hashem was five hours away from his death, his will written and the executioner ready, a senior Iraqi official told TIME. The Iraqi government had planned to carry out his death sentence at 3 a.m. on the sixth anniversary of 9/11. But Hashem, like all high-value prisoners from the former regime, was in U.S. custody. And at 10 p.m., word came that the helicopter from the U.S. prison at Camp Cropper...