Word: saviors
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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JOHN EDWARDS Dean has taken the sheen off North Carolina's glossy Senator, but if Dean beats Kerry up North, Edwards could bill himself as the moderate savior in the South
...usurpation of the go-between status the standard Gospels normally accord to Peter, and Mary depicts him as mightily peeved, asking, "Did [Jesus] really speak with a woman without our knowledge?" The disciple Levi comes to her defense, saying, "Peter, you have always been hot-tempered ... If the Savior made her worthy, who are you to reject her? Surely, the Savior loves her very well. That is why he loved her more than...
...maneuvered himself into the presidency of the newly independent Azerbaijan with a performance worthy of a Shakespearean villain. He first offered assistance to Abulfaz Elchibey, Azerbaijan's populist but inexperienced President. He then distanced himself as military and political opposition to Elchibey grew, and finally put himself forward as savior as the chaos worsened. "He was subtle, devious and cunning," recalls a retired Western ambassador who is close to the Aliyev family. He consolidated power, created an updated version of a Soviet ruling party, and was returned to office in elections that were widely condemned for what the U.S. called...
...Anderson: Oh yeah. It started probably in the late ?70s. The things I heard priests and bishops saying - well you know, "We have to be understanding of all religions because there are many ways to God, and Christians have Jesus as the Savior. But other religions have their saviors and their ways to God. It really finally doesn't matter so much what you believed as long as you believe something." This isn't right. A bishop came to speak at a church and was doing a Q&A, so I tossed a question out: Are there any groups...
...future world savior John Connor (Nick Stahl) is now a whiny teenager who needs help from his surly robot pal (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and a school chum (Claire Danes) to escape the machinations of blond killer cyborg T-X (Kristanna Loken). The Messiah metaphors that helped make the first Terminator a superior entertainment are now just the givens: boy and girl in peril, with one protector and one implacable pursuer. At its metallic heart, T3 is another chase movie--one figure relentlessly tracking three others, mostly in cars, at high speed through implausibly underpopulated Los Angeles streets...