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...territories and end the occupation." Orly thinks a desire to change course is bubbling up from the bottom of Israeli society, but she fears it won't amount to anything productive. "Neither on our side nor theirs is there a leader brave enough to take heroic decisions of historic importance," she says. "That's why I have no hope. We'll have wars and bloodshed that could continue for dozens of years...
...movie deal, a simple "was glimpsed confabbing with...") in his daily mix of gossip. Like a duke's dresser in the court of the Sun King, a press agent sees his client at his worst and must present him at his best. The trick was to paint a heroic portrait, of a person with plenty to hide, and sell it to a columnist who'll sell it to the public. You'd plant or leak favorable items and try to suppress the scandalous ones. Publicity is the peddler's art, whose colors are rouge and noir, whose techniques are wheedling...
Volokh has big plans for the gun club. With the help of Giroux, he hopes to expand its offerings significantly. Plans are in the works for gun-themed movie nights, with screenings of movies that depict “heroic characters using guns for good, such as Red Dawn and The Patriot.” Volokh also hopes to attract pro-gun speakers to campus—perhaps even the great Heston himself. At present, however, the activities of the group are confined to two trips per semester to the Manchester Firing Line...
...bled to death the day she gave birth--three months prematurely--to her triplet sons. Weighing less than 2 lbs. each, her babies were alive, but barely. They clung so tenuously to life that her doctors recommended she name them A, B and C. Then, after a year of heroic interventions--brain shunts, tracheotomies, skull remodeling--often requiring emergency helicopter rides to the hospital nearest their rural Tennessee home, the Hickmans learned that their triplets had cerebral palsy...
...None of the hoopla surrounding Racine and Johnson, however, should overshadow what was a historic, heroic performance by Bakken and Flowers. They are the best in the world - never again will they be just the "other team...