Word: anointed
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...real life, or as real as a cartoon fantasy gets, Po is the waiter in the village noodle shop run by his father (James Hong) - who happens to be a goose, but never mind. When Po hears that the thousand-year-old turtle Oogway (Randall Duk Kim) is to anoint the Dragon Warrior that day, he schleps his noodle wagon to the ceremony and, through the some mind-numbing plot contortions, is declared the new kung fu hero. There must be some mistake. He's a clumsy doofus for whom rising from a supine position can take all morning...
This is a time of endings. Tomorrow, cycle 10 of America’s Next Top Model will draw to a close, and Tyra Banks will bid us farewell till the fall. (Or, rather, till her talk show airs on Thursday afternoon.) Next week, our country will anoint its new beacon of hope—not in a presidential primary, but with the finale of American Idol season seven...
...Anoint your soil...
...Patrick asked voters assembled to push their friends and relatives to go to the polls today. “Make it personal,” he said. “Now is not the time to let up.” Kennedy, who asked Massachusetts voters to anoint Obama heir to the Kennedy legacy, twice began to refer to Obama as “Deval” before correcting himself. Harvard College and Law School students were present at the rally, and some had been volunteering throughout the afternoon. One Harvard freshman said she arrived...
...Bilawal, such as Aitzaz Ahsan, who led the lawyers' protests last summer. But the PPP is a family firm. It was created by Bhutto's father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who ran the country from 1971 to '77 and was executed by military ruler Zia in 1979. The decision to anoint Bilawal, says Haqqani, "will sit very well with the PPP base because he is the son of a martyr and the grandson of a martyr...