Word: messiahs
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...enough to be the Messiah. It is not enough to sing. It is not enough to replay politely the passion. What I in John can read I have no need to see again on the stage. I know that Pilate washed his hands of blood as, bleeding, Jesus bent under the whip. I know that Judas left him in the garden to deliver him to armed and angry men. To tell it again is pointless if you tell it in the same...
...classic rock star poses. Fortunately, moments like the rising fury of "Overdue" or the schizophrenic dynamics of "Cave" transcend hero worship and even manage to raise a few hairs on the back of the neck. Muse shouldn't be dismissed for simply failing to live up to their messiah-like hype. But for those searching for the next Radiohead: better luck next week...
...police vernacular, Gidone Busch was an "EDP"--an emotionally disturbed person. His medical records show that he believed he was directed by God to save drug addicts and exotic dancers, that his friends were prophets and that he was the messiah. When the police were called in last week, he was menacing children in a predominantly Hasidic Jewish section of Brooklyn, and he attacked the cops with a claw hammer. The police shot him to death with 12 bullets. Should they have just maimed Busch to subdue him? New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said, "When [police] make a decision...
...Mayer is hired as new director of Harvard Dining Services, replacing the popular "Mealtime Messiah," Michael P. Berry, who left for Disneyland...
...neat sun-lit office, under a large wooden sign that proclaims "Never enough thyme," Mayer speaks of the two years since he assumed the helm of Harvard's dining system, a post previously occupied by Michael P. Berry, widely known as the "Mealtime Messiah...