Word: bourassa
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...Audiences," writes Louise Bourassa Perrotta, author of Saint Joseph: His Life and His Role in the Church Today, "do not generally react well when favorite characters are retired early," citing Sherlock Holmes and Joseph. Nor did early Christians appreciate potshots by contemporaries who suspected Jesus might have been Joseph's son after all, or questioned Mary's virginity when Scripture talked about his having several "brothers" and "sisters." Among the first attempts to address all those issues were the vivid set of books known as the Apocrypha...
...Amanda Bourassa was taking her family on a behind-the-scenes tour of the Busch Garden facilities when Max, the 12-year-old lion in question, took her arm off just below the elbow. He was already excited; Bourassa had just fed Max some red meat as part of a training exercise, and the lion may have smelled the meat on Bourassa's latex glove. She was standing behind a safety fence, but apparently wrapped a finger around one of the bars - an encroachment zookeepers are taught to avoid...
...named "Ski" Demski, who entered the convention hall with his massive belly depicting tattoos of an American eagle while his back was adorned with a large flag. There was another fellow carrying around a sign that read "Nominate Jimmy Carter to Unite the Reform Party." And there was Jim Bourassa, founding chairman of the Arizona Reform party, who wears on his jacket not a political button but a large photograph of recently-deceased actor Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan Kenobi. Bourassa says the photo gives him otherworldly powers to wrest political might away from Buchanan. "We're using the Force...