Word: healer
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California has lost a state treasure, and I have lost a mentor and friend. As mayor of Los Angeles, TOM BRADLEY was a healer of social divisions and a visionary who shepherded the transformation of an unruly town into a great city. The grandson of slaves, the son of Texas sharecroppers, he broke through racial barriers because there was simply no surrender in him. He bore the abuse that was the price of his success with a majestic dignity that even his most vicious detractors could never crack. Although he never courted the press, and was often criticized...
...with toadies. In Mahathir's play, the pound of flesh has already been torn away. Like its neighbors, Malaysia lies bleeding, but when Korea, Thailand and Indonesia eagerly gulped down $150 billion in IMF bailout loans, Mahathir wanted none of the West's medicine. Shylock, after all, was no healer...
...Blake went down with a hamstring injury in early April. Coach Dave Fish '72 may have cursed himself after the Crimson took its first two matches without the senior when he called Blake the "fastest healer" he had ever seen. The healing process was still incomplete as the NCAA Tournament rolled around, and that fact alone did serious damage to the Crimson's NCAA chances...
...Being a healer is a calling, and the calling is a calling that comes from within, that part of within that is connected to something outside, something which is greater than ourselves," Gordon said...
Crace's portrayal of Jesus combines eerie realism with supernatural powers, sort of like a biblical X-Files. At this early stage in his short life the pious Jewish peasant thinks of himself as a gifted healer. Indeed, he cures one of his first patients--a dying merchant--with what seems like one-handed CPR. Musa, the revived trader, is not particularly grateful. His first thought is to sign up the young Jewish healer for a traveling medicine show. Musa is worldliness made flesh, the sort of opportunist and schemer who if asked to swap his soul for profit would...