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Actually Benny is a lot stranger than his father imagines. The boy has decided he is an ethereal spirit -- "Angel of Plagues, Angel of Ice, Angel of Lightning" -- and has had wings tattooed on his back. Benny also sees himself as the appointed savior of Catchprice Motors. Never mind that his relatives think him fit for nothing but pumping gas. "This is a family business," Benny tells a prospective salesman. "It's a snake-pit. They all hate each other. None of them can sell a car. If you work here, you'd have to work...
This year Maxwell's reputation spread from Wall Street to 42nd Street and the likes of New York City cabdrivers when he stepped in as the 11th-hour savior of the city's Daily News, whose workers were waging a draining strike against the paper's owners, the Tribune Co. Maxwell luxuriated in his role as an American media king, appearing in ads for the paper and putting on lavish spreads at Washington social functions. The new proprietor pocketed $60 million in exchange for taking on the News and its debt, but the paper still loses money -- between $30 million...
...have a profound fear that one day they too might lose control of their life and be left at technology's mercy. Until the medical profession and state legislatures address the issue systematically, a retired doctor with a bagful of poisons and an obsession will be viewed as a savior by frightened people in search of final peace...
Arnold sees these outbursts as "attempts to grandstand... these congressmen are saying, 'Look at me, I'm the savior of the taxpayers...
...real question is, What eventually grew on this bloodied soil? The answer is, The great modern civilizations of the Americas -- a new world of individual rights, an ever expanding circle of liberty and, twice in this century, a savior of the world from totalitarian barbarism...