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...nonbelievers accept Christ during the rise of the Antichrist. This ultimate villain does his best to kill as many of the new Christians as possible, and in some episodes it's all Rayford and Buck can do to stay alive and protect their wives. (Yes, Buck finds a girl amid the chaos, and like many of the series' female characters, she is constantly in need of rescuing...
...criminals of the seventeenth century. One hundred and fifty years later it had become a genteel area of rustling leaves and gracious houses, before Charles Bulfinch designed a formal layout for the area in 1801. The connecting row houses for which the Back Bay is famous were pioneered here, amid quiet fountains and charming parks...
Although Cruise and Spielberg, friends for two decades, have been developing the script since 1999, the movie turns out to be topical, a celluloid mirror of current events. Jointly financed by DreamWorks and Fox, it opens amid controversy over Attorney General John Ashcroft's decision to put a terrorism suspect in military detention. Many have noted the similarity between the movie's idea of Precrime and the legal ramifications of arresting but not charging suspected terrorists...
...woman who turns old drawer pulls into fancy wine corks: She knows her audience. Shares of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, in which she has a 63% stake worth nearly $500 million, recovered to $15.97 Friday after a two-week slide that had taken it down to $14.40 amid fears that her brand would be sullied by connection to insider-trading allegations at ImClone...
...they began exploring alternatives like Macrobiotics, an Asian-based system of diet and spirituality. These efforts result in short-lived successes, with the Beauchards leading increasingly isolated lives and Jean-Christofe sinking deeper into anger and illness. By the end of book one the author's parents are "lost" amid the many dead-end, hocus-pocus cures, Florence the younger sister has attempted suicide, and the author has locked himself inside the armor of a twelve-year-old cynic...