Word: warriorism
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...pages), Finder spent months interviewing staff members at technology giant NEC and other plasma-TV makers. The novel's hero, Jason Steadman, 30, is a sales exec at Entronics, a fictional Japanese-owned corporation. Although Steadman is a devotee of military-style business books, he's no warrior on the corporate battlefield--until he meets Kurt Semko, a former special-forces officer who did a stint in Iraq. "He's everything Gordy [his boss] and all these other phony tough guys pretend to be," Steadman thinks. "Sitting in their Aeron chairs and talking about 'dog eat dog' and 'killing...
...hang on almost every wall in Tiger territory, and stories about the kindness and wisdom of The Leader abound. Not an articulate man, Prabhakaran, 51, uses secrecy to build his mystique, rarely making public appearances. Many analysts see him as the single biggest obstacle to peace. "He's a warrior," says Chalk. "The best hope for peace is if Prabhakaran dies...
...order to legitimize their other actions," says al-Fadl. Those who have observed al-Zarqawi at close quarters suggest that this is the logical next step in his evolution as a jihadi. Once a street thug in his hometown of Zarqa, he turned himself into a mujahid, or holy warrior, in Afghanistan, and then an emir, or military chieftain, in Iraq. "At some point, every emir wants to become a sheik," or religious leader, says the commander of an Iraqi insurgent group. "Since he was always quite religious, it is natural for him to grow in that direction." He cites...
Half the tracks, on the other hand, such as “Mysteries,” “Sweets,” and “Warrior,” are limp and to be skipped...
EYES ON THE PRIZE King Agamemnon dissed Achilles by stealing his war prize, the beautiful woman Briseis. So the warrior laid down his sword, giving Troy a boost in its epic battle with the Greeks...