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What sort of cultural and political influence does Farrakhan currently wield?
To more vividly convey that coloring, many newspapers encourage their reporters to wield the tools of the novelist, opening a story with an evocative detail, such as these leads, both from the front of today's New York Times : "Ana Estela Lopeze dreamed of saving enough money to return to El Salvador to open a clothing store and build a three-bedroom house"; and "Rani, an illiterate woman from the washermen's caste, changed into her prettiest sari one recent morning."
Also like Liberace, Versace understood how to wield theatrical magic.
An organization like al Qaeda, headquartered in a country on the other side of the earth, in a region so poor that electricity or telephones were scarce, could nonetheless scheme to wield weapons of unprecedented destructive power in the largest cities of the United States.
Parker is remembered as "a larger-than-life field general who could wield the entire arsenal of the magazine to tell a story with power, insight and drama."