Word: belle
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...Gulf War in 1991, the NATO air war against Serbia, the U.S. campaign against Afghanistan, the invasion of Iraq in 2003--the entire spirit of "Crusade" that animates the war on terrorism. The Roman Catholic Church under John Paul II made its opposition to war as clear as a bell, even if in Washington this aspect of the Pope's legacy was steadfastly ignored...
...wait for those we love to die, to celebrate the way they lived. For Christians this is a season of mystery and grace, and during the final days, John Paul II gave his people one last gift: the message of his visible pain and transcendent love, like a bell ringing out over St. Peter's Square, clear and resounding as it carried up to heaven. --With reporting by Jeff Israely and Giancarlo Zizola/Rome
...only Schnabel has actually launched a plausible career for himself as a director. Although he still exhibits art and had a large retrospective in Frankfurt last year, his next movie project is likely to overshadow anything he has done lately for a gallery. His adaptation of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, the memoir of a French magazine editor left paralyzed by a stroke, is scheduled to star Johnny Depp...
VERONICA MARS (UPN, TUESDAYS, 9 P.M. E.T.) A high school girl detective (Kristen Bell) is trying to find the stranger who drugged and date-raped her, solve the murder of her best friend and unearth secrets of her own past in the process. It may sound like The O.C.S.I., but Mars is much better than its high-concept premise. Bell is a captivating star, with a girl scout's face and Philip Marlowe's jadedness. And like its godsister Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Mars uses its pulp premise to dramatize a universal teen experience: that growing up means sleuthing...
Richard goss / anglia press agency After decades of experimentation, the world's first black hyacinth, Midnight Mystique, has arrived. The three "ancestor" bulbs whose genes helped create the dusky shoot of bell-shaped florets were bought for over $93,000 each. But the fashionable flower promises to recoup that investment and then some. Bulbs will sell for $15 each - over 10 times the norm for hyacinths - and gardeners worldwide are already clamoring for the dark side of the bloom...