Word: worshiped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ways of recalling the past two millenniums is by listing the people who acquired great power. Muhammad, Catherine the Great, Marx, Gandhi, Hitler, Roosevelt, Stalin and Mao come quickly to mind. There's no question that each of those figures changed the lives of millions and evoked responses from worship through hatred...
...once was a house of worship, but has since been turned over to secular purposes. It has housed George Washington's troops, a fire engine shop, and most recently, Harvard's choral program. More than 250 years old, Holden Chapel was showing...
...will postpone the visit. Nazareth Muslim leader Suleiman Abu Ahmed sought to play down divisions, saying, "We are going to build a Mosque to pray to God, the same God of the Christians and the Jews." He promised that the mosque would be "the brother of the church." But worship always carries a political motif in the hotly contested Holy Land. The Nazareth mosque, for example, will be dedicated to Shihab al-Din, the nephew of the legendary Salah el-Din - Saladin - who drove the Christian crusaders from Jerusalem in the 12th century...
...come to worship this false god of youth just as wayward, ancient Hebrews once knelt at the hooves of a golden calf. But perhaps there's a lesson there as well. Once the world's darling, that golden calf later found herself a tarnished cow, reduced to flashing her sagging udders at circus sideshows. Over time, self-loathing made her lactose-intolerant, and she died too young from an overdose of prescription-strength Dairy Ease[TM]. How do I know this? I just watched the whole sad aftermath during teen-idols week on VH1's Where Are They...
David's feelings for Ted, in fact, bordered on worship. He was particularly smitten by Ted's belief that modern man was being corrupted by society in general and technology in particular. "Knowing him as I do," Ted writes, "I am certain that if Dave had known of the Unabomber before 1989"--the year David moved in with Linda Patrik--"he would have regarded him as a hero...