Word: servants
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...doctor," Hood says, "is that Willis cures George not by making him seem like a king, but by forcing him to behave as a normal man, bound by the laws of society, propriety and humility. It is only when the king can beg forgiveness of his own servant that he is fit to resume the character of a pompous, eccentric, yet charming monarch. The interaction between Willis and the king is crucial to the arc of the play and for the restoration of order from the political turmoil of the king's madness...
...assertions that hasn't lifted yet. But two basic images loom through the haze. The first is Bush's portrait of Gore as a retrograde liberal who wants to patch up the edifice of the Great Society. The second is Gore's portrait of Bush as a faithful servant of the rich and powerful who wants to wire-transfer the surplus into the bank accounts of the upper class, spending "more money on tax cuts for the wealthiest 1%" than he does for new education, health-care and defense programs combined. Are Bush and Gore right about each other? Every...
...make one happy: AIDS, civil wars, corrupt democracies, military governments and stagnant economies. Recently, though, there has been the glimmer of a renaissance, as the world has begun to focus more closely on the problems there. When I saw that TIME had celebrated the world's most powerful civil servant, Annan, an African, I felt hopeful. I am very, very proud to be an African. ASHER LULUFA VONGTAU Kaduna, Nigeria...
...counter Bush's born-again, Jesus-Day Christianity. But if this is the way politics is played these days, Gore seems to be saying, at least we're in there working it, refusing to give an inch on moral fervor. (Gore, said Lieberman, "has never wavered...as a servant of God Almighty.") But the Gore campaign knows it's all too easy to overplay the religion thing, which is why Lieberman dialed back the devotion later in the week--no prayers or invocations of God on the stump, just some remarks about Gore's "courage" that didn't explain what...
...people, to be glad of spirit, to sing to God, and make music to God, and most of all, to give glory in gratitude to God from whom all blessings truly do flow." And for good measure, he championed Al Gore as an unwavering father, husband and "servant of God Almighty." Needless to say, the same words spoken by a Republican candidate might have alarmed not only ACLU types, but also Governor Bush's handlers, who've taken great pains to distance the party's image from the influence of the Christian right. (Bush, for the record, limited himself...