Word: vishnu
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...student Vishnu Srinivasan said that he came out largely because he had a business school case on Samsung, but added that the prospect of technology giveaways was attractive...
...Kbal Spean, a distant jungle enclave where elaborately carved bas-reliefs from the 11th century decorate the riverbed and surrounding rocks. It was nighttime, and they found the site unguarded because of the lack of funds. Using an electric saw, the raiders gouged out the faces of the god Vishnu and his wife Lakshmi. Apparently, they were not experts: Lakshmi's face cleaved into several pieces, one of which was found beside the desecrated site the next day. Still Tranet estimates that the Vishnu face alone could sell for up to $50,000 in Bangkok--and several times that...
...Look at those girls," hisses Vishnu, another extra. "How is Rosy any different from them?" Junior artists are graded during their selection. Some, who can pass as upper class, are called "Decent." The rest are called "B Grade." Rosy is "Decent," and therefore feels that non-union models are taking her jobs. "They are prostitutes," declares another of Rosy's friends. "These so-called models are given preference because they sleep with the producers and the agents...
...Michael Newdow, an atheist who argued that his daughter?s rights were infringed when the phrase was included in the pledge at her school each morning. Goodwin reasoned that saying, "we are a nation ?under God? " is equivalent to saying "we are a nation ?under Jesus,? a nation ?under Vishnu,? a nation ?under Zeus? or a nation ?under...
...water becomes holy by passing over this area before moving downstream to a series of tiered waterfalls. At the top, where Jayavarman II chose to bathe, he again had the river diverted so that the stone bed could be carved with an elaborate rendering of the Hindu god Vishnu. Vishnu is laying on the serpent Ananta, with his wife Lakshmi at his feet and a lotus flower protrudes from his navel bearing the god Brahma. Visitors can walk into the water to take pictures but are instructed not to touch the underwater carvings...