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Kerry's military service and heroic acts in Vietnam cannot be overlooked in our current state of war. Who is President Bush to ask American troops to go abroad and fight when he was disinclined to do so himself? Only someone who knows what war entails can determine if war is truly necessary. MATTHEW HERMAN Westport, Conn...
...DIED. PAUL "RED" ADAIR, 89, heroic oil-well firefighter immortalized by John Wayne in the 1968 movie The Hellfighters; in Houston, Texas. Adair began his career putting out oil-well fires during the Great Depression, and as his expertise grew, his name became virtually synonymous with the profession. At age 76, he and his Texas-based Red Adair Co. capped hundreds of Kuwaiti oil wells left burning at the end of the Gulf War. Adair's exploits earned him a daredevil reputation, to which he once remarked: "A daredevil's reckless, and that ain't me. The devil's down...
What's the biblical import of, say, Spider-Man? "Peter Parker gives us all a chance to be heroic," says Erwin McManus, pastor of Mosaic, a Baptist-affiliated church in Los Angeles. "The problem is, we keep looking for radioactive spiders, but really it's God who changes us." What's the big idea behind The Village, according to the website movieministry.com "Perfect love drives out fear." Behind The Notebook? "God can step in where science cannot." And, gulp, Anchorman? "What is love?" If your minister floated those notions recently, it may be because movieministry.com provides homilies for Sunday sermons...
...only loss, an upset at the 2004 Belmont Stakes, where a win would have made him the second undefeated Triple Crown winner in history alongside Seattle Slew, who won in 1977; to a breeding farm in Midway, Kentucky. The injury was not career ending, but owners reined in the heroic Philadelphia-bred colt to avoid risk of further damage. "If anything else went wrong, it would break our heart," said owner Patricia Chapman...
...overlook. "Shows like Third Watch are corny, formulaic soap operas," Quinn says. The Rescue Me team is conscious of being more real, more unsparing, morewellcable. Looking over posters for the ad campaign backstage, Leary rejects one that has the main characters in uniform, lined up, gazing upward. "Too heroic," he says. "That looks like a CBS show...