Word: warriorism
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...dependency for the metropolitan set may not last very long. Spoon, a ³Life and Style Magazine for Couples,² released its premier issue earlier this winter. With this instruction manual in hand, every Madison Avenue warrior twosome will soon be untarnishable...
...tough, Combs says, it's because "there's never been an opportunity like this, even back in the Motown days. Very few people have the chance to be their own boss, to own what they create." Sometimes, to lead the way to the promised land, it takes a warrior, not a prophet...
...Hussein had a historic role to play," says MacLeod, "and he played it with courage and honor." Of necessity, though, he had to grow into the role. The young aristocrat with a love of fast cars and beautiful women became the warrior king who took control of his country's army from its British mentors and personally commanded his forces in a bloody battle against Palestinian insurrectionists in the "Black September...
...Inevitably, perhaps, the warrior king made mistakes. Joining Egypt in a disastrous 1967 war against Israel cost him control of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, where his family had tended the Islamic holy sites since the days of the prophet...
...Such setbacks spurred Hussein's transition from warrior-king to philosopher-king. To his friends he was loyal but never afraid to speak frankly. To adversaries he was a voice of reason who could be trusted to keep his word -- a rare quality in the politics of the Middle East. Hussein's moderation, and the respect he enjoyed among friend and foe, made him the pivotal figure in the most recent turn of the peace process, when he rose from his sickbed at the Mayo clinic to coax Yasser Arafat and Benjamin Netanyahu to conclude a deal...