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...Invasion.” Far more damning than that ill-conceived “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” remake is Kidman and Craig’s appearance in the film adaptation of Philip Pullman’s novel “The Golden Compass,” opening worldwide today—and all because Pullman is a no-God-fearing atheist...
Pullman is the author of His Dark Materials, a trio of fantasy novels that has sold more than 15 million copies since the first volume, The Golden Compass, was published in 1995. It has been turned into a radio drama and a hit London stage play. A movie of The Golden Compass, starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, opens in the U.S. next week and will probably take its place in the pantheon of profitable fantasy franchises that includes The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia and Harry Potter. But the most striking fact about Pullman's work...
...underwater wrist compass and Marina Militare watch...
...group at the 50-yard line has become as common as the quarterback sack, and individual players routinely thank the God of their choice for helping with a game-winning hit/basket/touchdown, the Rockies stand out for openly touting Christian values - as they define it, strong character and a moral compass - as a guiding organizational philosophy off the field. Club president Keli McGregor has gone so far as to say that God is "using [The Rockies] in a powerful...
...afternoon.In a rainy and blustery Tercentenary Theatre, Faust turned to the past as she articulated a vision of Harvard’s future. Dressed in a robe modeled on the raiments of a Puritan minister, she invoked John Winthrop as she presented what she called a “compass to steer by,” a web of broadly conceived priorities for the University and higher education.“The essence of a university is that it is uniquely accountable to the past and to the future—not simply or even primarily to the present...