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...British TV appearances--though the 90-person entourage she brought with her probably made things easier, as did the white muslin and white lilies she requested for her dressing room, to go along with the white sofas she brought over. At the tour's first stop in Stockholm, autograph seeker Jennifer Melin, 15, gushed, "She is an incredible example for us. She says smart things!" Take that, Taliban...
...game—for all you muggles out there—consists of three Chasers that score points by passing the Quaffle ball, one Keeper that acts as a goalie, two Beaters that protect their team from their opponent’s Bludger balls and most importantly, a Seeker, who pursues the Golden Snitch. A tiny golden orb that flies at breakneck speed, the winged snitch is the center of any Quidditch match, for after it is captured, the game is over...
...Kandahar, the Taliban's hometown and Omar's heavily guarded lair. He doesn't even like his title of mullah, which means "giver of knowledge." Having been yanked out of the seminary to fight the Soviet occupiers of his country, Omar would rather be known as a talib, a "seeker of knowledge," a student...
...that's what a yogi means in India. It is someone who has moved from body to the mind, to the soul, to awareness, to the subtle surrender to the superconsciousness. Next time you head for a yoga class, ask yourself whether you are ready to be a seeker of the path...
...been denounced as a charlatan, a sensation-seeker, a medieval reactionary ... He has developed an unequaled gift for making enemies and influencing people. He has spoken rudely of such sacrosanct characters as ... Bertrand Russell ('he made a fool of himself'). He has spoken ill of children ('the most imperfect of all human beings') and dogs ('they are only brutes'). He has committed the modern heresy of declaring that there are such permanent, absolute values as Truth and Justice ... (H)e has moved up & down the country, talking to the young and causing acute attacks of thought in ... college students...