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Gould depicted Sharon as a "great and good man . . . an asset too precious to be defiled by lies and half-truths." He told the jury: "Your verdict will do much to determine whether he'll go down in history as a great man, a great soldier, a savior of his country or as a kind of monster, another Herod." Sharon's approval of the decision to send the Phalangists into the camps, he said, was made while "bullets were flying and guys were dying." Said Gould: "He's not making the kind of decisions you make as an editor...
...achievements, its aspirations and its very spirit. For many Indians, there is today a personal sense of loss. Indira was not always one of the world's greatest leaders. We saw her as a shy and much loved daughter of her father, a mother to her two sons, a savior of the oppressed people of Bangladesh, military leader of the Indian army, writer, intellectual, stateswoman, politician, party-leader, tyrant, dictator and leader of the largest democracy in the world. We saw her as a Gandhian, dressed in "khadi," or handspun cloth, tirelessly travelling through the villages of India...
...selection process that cost over $40,000, involving mailings to thousands of educators, and air travel for the four candidates to criss-cross the country. Harvard finally chose its top administrator. One Crimson editor said of the new president, "He's Derek Bok, he's the Answer, the Savior, the Lucky Ticket, the Academy Messiah...
...savior in whom this earnest vision burns is a prosperous Jewish horse trader named Balaban. He buys an old mountaintop hotel, formerly a monastery, near Vienna and issues a prospectus promising horseback riding, swimming, and the painless eradication of embarrassing gestures and ugly accents. And soon the place is filled with aging Jews of both sexes who have become burdens to their assimilated children...
...savior of developing countries is also the scapegoat...