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...CRUISE, who extended his string of rescue missions last week by aiding a mugging victim in London. Hearing cries for help, Cruise, emboldened no doubt by the presence of his bodyguards, ran to assist a woman being robbed of her jewelry. Cruise is no neophyte knight in Armani armor. At a 1996 premiere of Mission: Impossible he lifted two boys over a barricade to prevent them from being crushed. A few months later, while sailing in the Mediterranean, he rescued castaways from a burning boat. Also that year, he swooped in to comfort a hit-and-run victim and paid...
...Nobel Award for Safety Engineering went to Troy Hurtubise, of North Bay, Ont., for "developing and personallytesting a suit of armor impervious to grizzlybears...
...traveled in armor-plated limousines, trailed by phalanxes of Chevrolet Suburbans carrying security agents from both China and the United States. A police helicopter monitored the motorcade route from above...
Among the nominees for the Making Life Difficult for Yourself Award, it's hard to beat the Department of Justice. When probing for flaws in the Collossus of Redmond's armor last year, Joel Klein chose a dangerous gambit. Instead of launching a new and achingly slow suit against Microsoft that might take years to resolve, he decided to move much more speedily. Last October he sued to reopen an existing Windows 95 lawsuit. All went well -- at first. An irate Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson in December ruled that Microsoft had violated a 1995 agreement with the government...
Abandoning his studied neutrality, Quart eventually performs a priestly act that saves Our Lady of the Tears, but at the cost of his ecclesiastical career. In doing so, the priest, who imagines himself a kind of modern Knight Templar, finds his true self by breaking through the armor of discipline and obedience that has served him as a surrogate for faith...