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...movie has a few guest artistes: Bono as a Ken Kesey-style drug emancipator, and Eddie Izzard, with Blue Meanies as his backup group, doing a raffish "For the Benefit of Mr. Kite." There's also an excellent "Come Together" performed by Joe Cocker, who, astonishingly, has outlived both crimes against his body and most of his contemporaries. (He and Jerry Lee Lewis are the very improbable Indestructibles of rock 'n roll...
Sophomore Cheng Ho, who has 31 career carries for 145 yards and a touchdown, will get the start at tailback, but freshman Gino Gordon will see the field as his backup after an impressive summer and preseason...
Chosen as the backup to the original teacher-in-space, Christa McAuliffe, in 1985, Morgan was on site at Cape Canaveral the following year when McAuliffe and her six crewmates perished in the explosion of the shuttle Challenger. The fact that she's now in space is a tribute to her tenacity - to say nothing of her courage - as well as to NASA's often artful ability to include a compelling storyline in what would otherwise be a routine space flight. What it says less about - as is so often the case with the NASA of the last generation...
...rest of the roster has slowly but surely been falling into place. Sophomore Cheng Ho is still slated as the starter at running back, but a strong showing from sophomore Mike Clarke has earned him the backup job, while senior Charles Baakel is third on the depth chart...
...Braille method" of search, physically feeling their way through the water. Capt. Bill Chandler of the Hennepin County Sheriff's Department supervises the rescue divers, a group of 20 people from several locales, working in groups of three: one person in the water while the other two provide backup. The divers, he said, use sonar to identify potential submerged vehicles. They then carefully make their way to the target and identify what...