Word: armstrong
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When the conversation does lock onto a subject, there can be fireworks. In the series' best segment, "Apocalypse," about the Flood, British author (and former nun) Karen Armstrong conducts a blistering twin attack. God, she maintains, is "not some nice, cozy daddy in the sky." He is "behaving in an evil way," effectively introducing mankind to the idea of justifiable genocide. Noah, meanwhile, is a "damaged survivor" who says no word about those drowning around him, much less tries to help them. Drinking his troubles away after reaching shore, he is enraged at being seen naked...
UNDERGOING CHEMOTHERAPY. LANCE ARMSTRONG, 25, top American road- racing cyclist; for advanced testicular cancer; in Austin, Texas...
...have to wade through nearly 10 hours of the 12 1/2-hour documentary series The West--past Lewis and Clark's expedition and the gold rush and Brigham Young and George Armstrong Custer--to reach the man who historian Richard White contends is "the one true genius the 19th century West created." He is none other than William F. ("Buffalo Bill") Cody, the former Indian fighter and buffalo hunter whose touring "Wild West" show forever fixed the myth of the West for the rest of the world. Cody's show, which began touring in the 1880s, re-created Indian attacks...
...Youth Pavilion just outside the convention, the Young Voters Programs also heard spirited exhortations from current leaders. Instead of Colin Powell, the future of the Republican Party listened to Raynard Jackson and Ron Christie and Armstrong Williams, all African Americans on the political rise. Instead of peering into a crowd of white delegates, these men were surrounded by white students...
...then someone should tell Christopher Columbus, Neil Armstrong and Javier Sotomayor that there have been some serious measuring errors along with a few pretty good hoaxes pulled on the world...