For Mr Chávez, who venerates Simón Bolívar, an independence hero, the date holds an almost mystical significance.
Thomas Friedman, a New York Times writer, describes the political expression of such concerns as "the olive tree"—the outlook that most venerates that which is rooted and has existed for generations.The cosmopolitan argument, by contrast, takes London as its starting point.
"But our saints, they have that knowledge".Mr Qadeer is standing in the belly of a shrine that he is building to a modern gnostic, Hafiz Iqbal, whom he venerates especially.
Not so important, but more entertaining, should be the early work on the world's tallest statue, of Vallabhbhai Patel, a hero of independence whom Mr Modi venerates.
The difficult job of making it change has fallen to Thomas Middelhoff, a 45-year-old who took over as Bertelsmann's new boss on November 2nd.In this section All at Siemens Ivan of all trades Overdosed Eastern promise Bertelsmann's Bismarck Hot market Broadband bottleneck Puffs of white Gauloise smoke ReprintsOne difficulty is that everyone at Bertelsmann venerates their company's history.
Rather, it venerates the communist functionaries who were beaten, lynched and set on fire when the rebels captured the building.Looking at the powerful photographs in Erich Lessing's book, it seems as if what happened in Budapest was less an uprising against the Soviets than a civil war.
For Mr Miliband, who also venerates Elizabeth Warren, a banker-busting senator, there is much Britain can learn from this.
The Yasukuni shrine does not simply honour soldiers who died for their country, but venerates the ideology and policies of the government that sent them to war.
And unlike American culture, which venerates the maverick self-made millionaire and is tolerant of failure, Japan frowns upon public displays of wealth and stigmatises business failure.On the outer edgeTake Takafumi Horie, an example of the sort of entrepreneur who remains extremely rare in Japan.
In the same year the average number of workers per enterprise was just over four, the second-lowest figure in the EU.Italy's competitiveness problems are deep-rooted, not just in the economy but in a culture that venerates the family and favours the proliferation of small, often inefficient, family firms.
Even the so-called Nestorian church is not Nestorian in the strict sense, though it venerates Nestorius and refuses to accept the title Theotokos.
