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...Orleans Saints: Antowain Smith, RB, Houston. Mike Ditka dropped down to here from number two because the "Ain'ts" needs help in a lot of areas. You know Ditka loves to run the football, and Smith became the top-rated running back in the draft when he ran in the 4.4s in the combine. He has great size at 6'2", 224 but is a comparative geezer...
...movie seems unaware of the depths of Jacey's sexual vengefulness. It's played as romantic rebellion, something he'll outgrow. Meantime ain't he cute, girls, all broody and snotty--just the thing to give your parents plenty of sleepless nights. What Inventing the Abbotts is aware of are all those lock-up-your-daughters movies of the 1950s, to which for some dotty reason it is eager to prove its superiority of understanding. But the goofy hysteria of something like A Summer Place was infinitely more entertaining and emotionally authentic than the distant smugness of this failed clone...
...that ain't going to happen. This team doesn't have enough firepower to erase the kind of mistakes that it made yesterday, especially when Harvard takes on the likes of Yale on Monday or No. 1 Maryland next Saturday...
...they doubt heaven's existence. People still believe in it: it's just that their concept of exactly what it is has grown foggier, and they hear about it much less frequently from their pastors. To reverse the words of the old spiritual: Everybody's goin' to heaven, just ain't talkin' 'bout it. The silence is such that it sometimes seems heaven might as well not be there. Kreeft complains that even if our basic belief has not wavered, "our sense of beauty, glory, wonder, awe, magnificence, triumph has shrunk" into something "joyless." Marked by an apparent combination...
Mitby says the anonymous threat ("If you think you've heard nasty things over e-mail, you ain't seen nothing yet," it read) has made him hesitant to speak his mind...