Word: warriors
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...caretaker at Tamerlane's tomb draws his finger across his throat and jabs his chest. In my eagerness to photograph the crypt it seems I have damned us all, unleashing the warrior King's curse. It wouldn't be the first time Tamerlane has struck from his grave. On June 22, 1941, Soviet archaeologists working in the Samarkand crypt opened the sarcophagus to study the body and found the inscription: "Whoever opens this will be defeated by an enemy more fearsome than I." Hours later, Hitler invaded Russia. Five weeks after the great Emir was reinterred in 1942, the Germans...
...Australia. A 30-year lifer who has run just about every Ford fief on the planet, he is a relentless taskmaster with a passion for machines, Savile Row suits and exquisite watches (he has 120 at last count). He lives the code of today's global corporate warrior, perpetually moving through time zones and making deals...
...does it take an eco-warrior to realize that Bush’s new environmental policies have been nothing short of reprehensible. From breaking campaign promises on reducing carbon dioxide emissions to authorizing pointless oil exploration in protected areas of Alaska and allowing carcinogenic levels of arsenic to remain in drinking water, the past 100 days have brought a litany of environmental disasters. Bush’s transparent reliance upon big business has forced him to jeopardize the U.S. environment in order to repay their support for his campaign...
...gradual cultural exchange has played a quiet but constant role in human history - and that invasions aren't necessarily all they have been cracked up to be. Thirty years ago the dominant theory was that the precursor of the Indo-European languages came to Europe on the tongues of warrior horsemen from the Pontic steppes of present-day Ukraine, and that the broad dispersal of those languages across the Continent was a tribute to their martial success. Then in 1987 Renfrew made a powerful case that it was the Neolithic farmers who brought the language with them from the Middle...
...knocking on the European Union's door. Whether it gets in or not depends on the commitment of the Turkish parliament to political and economic reform. But it may also depend on one M.P. who has transformed herself from an internist at a provincial hospital into a human rights warrior...