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...Book of Abraham, like its cast, is hardly flawless. Famous historical figures too often behave like cutouts in a Michener mini-series: " 'Your dream, young man, is also ours,' said Gutenberg. 'But wood engraving isn't the solution.' " " 'You've changed,' the painter Rembrandt van Rijn told Herschel a few days later. 'Your face is less luminous.' " The novel fulfills its mission when it leaves the famous and concentrates on the lives of the obscure--the uncelebrated and faceless figures who make history happen. Furnished with voices, the long silent tribe of Abraham reiterates the observation made by Playwright...
...Hitting Herschel, nailing a 45-yard field goal in five inches of snow to send a playoff game into overtime, ending Super Bowl XXXVI two weeks later with 48-yard game-winner as time expired - he?s not jumping over cars and rivers on a rocket-powered motorcycle, but like his third cousin, Evel Knievel, Adam Vinatieri doesn?t melt under fire. Despite a sub-par regular season, when he converted a career-low 73.5% of his field goal tries, Vinatieri has kept a clutch foot in the playoffs. He hit a 46-yard knuckleball in the Arctic cold...
Cousin Evel would have smiled. Back in 1996, his rookie year, New England Patriots kicker Adam Vinatieri proved he was a daredevil: he knocked down Dallas Cowboys kick returner Herschel Walker, saving a touchdown. Before a returner starts prancing towards the end zone, he usually sprints past the poor little kicker, making him crumble to the ground like a cheap cookie. But Vinatieri wasn?t scared to pound one of the NFL?s strongest players, and his coach, Bill Parcells, singled him out in the locker room after the game. ?That day he told everybody that I was a football...
...probably should have studied more. When Olympic swimmer Rowdy Gaines asked me to compare Secretary of State Colin Powell’s foreign policy to National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice’s, I almost laughed. Some of the other girls got even weirder questions. Heisman trophy winner Herschel Walker is fond of grilling contestants with church involvement on their resumes about obscure Bible passages. More than one of us walked out of that room in tears...
Wireless skeptics--and there are quite a few--say reports of the revolution are greatly exaggerated. "Promises, promises, promises," says Jane Zweig, an analyst with Herschel Shosteck Associates. "A lot of hype, not much delivery...