"She replied with a one-line sentence: 'Be Japan's savior.' " Over the summer, I met now and then with a worker at the plant who had returned shortly after the meltdowns.
"We never asked him to be the savior coming over here, but that was the price of doing business," Giants General Manager Brian Sabean said.
But a less-discussed factor may have scuttled the struggling networking company's last hope for a savior: concerns over Chinese cyberspying.
As potential saviors pored over A.I.G.'s books, the holes they discovered kept growing — first from $20 billion, then to $40 billion, then to $80 billion, then even more.
Down in the ninth in Game 3 of the ALDS, 40-year-old Raul Ibanez pinch-hit for the slumping slugger against Oriole Jim Johnson as, in the Yankee dugout, legendary savior Mariano Rivera leaned over to Rodriguez.
As Gingrich has shown in many, many comments over the decades, "savior of the nation" is a role he sees himself inhabiting.
In one billboard, Colonel Qaddafi appears as a savior as sun rays break over his shoulder and a crowd of black men and women reach toward him with outstretched arms.
He became her confidant, and she became his fixer, his disciple, and, when the Nazis took over Austria, his savior.
Father Malcolm O'Rourke, whose faith has waned since having an otherworldly encounter as a child, is called into action by the church's head exorcist, Cardinal Michael David Reed, as well as other potential saviors from all over the world.
Owen Van Natta, who was celebrated as the savior of MySpace when he was hired, was apparently fired over something as simple as trying to control his executive team.
Elevating Lincoln as the nation's "savior" to equal standing with its "father" smoothed over the crisis of disunion.
