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...perform their work before a panel of judges randomly chosen from the audience. Each performer is rated on a scale of 0 to 10; the highest cumulative score wins. It is poetry as team sport; Emily Dickinson vs. Langston Hughes on the wrestling mat. It is not for the faint of heart...
...limits of public acceptance, by broadcasting an open-heart operation live on its website, www.ahn.com In the name of educating the country about heart disease, the cable channel will let viewers observe surgeons operate at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston at 2 p.m. E.T. Not for the faint of heart...
...removed the pitcher from the batting order; pitchers usually make for quick outs.) That half an hour is a huge increase, yet it fails to measure the agony of those games in which the earth's rotation seems to stop, in which the stillness is broken only by the faint sounds of grass growing and paint drying. In April I attended a night game between the Yanks and the Mariners in which the first five innings took...
...accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping and calling us to good works." Half a millennium of strife is not instantly undone; last week's participants, unlike the Regensburgers, didn't imagine they were reuniting the church. But the Declaration does preserve faint hopes of such a reunion. And it is "momentous" in its own right, notes influential Catholic commentator Richard John Neuhaus, for seriously addressing "the root cause of a division that has shaped all of world history...
...week went into high gear with former IRA fighters and Protestant paramilitaries trading quips and showing a remarkable degree of cooperation inside the new Northern Ireland assembly in spite of attempts by the Protestant opposition to destabalize it. In Northern Ireland, after all, politics have never been for the faint-hearted -- even if things do turn ugly in Portadown, the leaders committed to keeping the peace are not men easily spooked by the sight of blood...