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Hopefully, President Obasanjo's optimism will spread beyond the geographical boundaries of Nigeria, and the country's lost role as the "Giant of Africa" can be recast as the "Phoenix of Africa...
Yitzhak Rabin risked - and lost - his life for the Oslo Accord, and President Clinton hopes his memory will inspire Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak to take the giant steps required to complete the peace process. But it may take more than even Rabin's inspirational example, commemorated by Arafat, Barak and Clinton in a ceremony in the Norwegian capital Tuesday, to spur progress in the troubled march to peace. After all, even at the height of the optimism and trust forged between Rabin and Arafat, the "final status" issues currently on the table were considered too contentious to tackle...
That may be so, but what got them into the theaters was something different. The film's primary backer is Crouch's father Paul, CEO and star (with his bounteously bouffanted wife Jan) of the Trinity Broadcasting Network. TBN is actually not a "little Christian channel" but a giant in the sometimes overlooked field of televangelism. Showcasing preachers both black and white, it claims to reach 84 million homes and takes in some $80 million a year in contributions, primarily from 1.5 million "partners" who give annually...
Lainie Kazan and Iggy Pop will serenade you with Auld Lang Syne as you and yours suck the last dregs from your jeroboam of Roederer Cristal and giant tube worms and deep-sea shrimp (tres joli!) caper about the volcanic sulfide chimneys outside your stateroom's bay windows...
...dinosaur bones have not yet been fully analyzed, but they appear to belong to early prosauropods, small herbivores that are most likely the ancestors of the giant Apatosaurus (once known as Brontosaurus). Says Flynn of the little beasts: "I like to think of them being somewhat like kangaroos. They were similar in size, and while they didn't hop, they probably walked about on four legs and stood up on two legs to feed." Most of the other fossils come from rhynchosaurs (parrot-beaked reptiles). The rest are cynodonts, cold-blooded, reptile-like animals--the ancestors of modern mammals...