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Outside the RV, a young man selling programs, Midland's center last year, Keith Ward, asked, "Do you know what Mojo stands for?" A visitor said he understood it was the name of the Odessa mascot, a student in a panther costume. "No," said Keith, "it stands for Most Obnoxious Jerks in Odessa...
...1960s Second Vatican Council. Tettamanzi, who succeeded Martini in Milan, may be the man to stave off a Ratzinger rout in the early balloting. He is seen as a largely conciliatory figure who can talk with both the progressives and traditionalists. Doubts remain, however, about whether Tettamanzi has the mojo to make a formidable pope. The 71-year-old has weak foreign-language skills, and is seen as a somewhat provincial Italian figure...
...documentary about his quest. But that's not so easy. Once the monarch of the seas, he is now forced to scrounge humiliatingly for sponsorship in a crass and unfeeling world. In Bill Murray's sublime characterization, Zissou has the stunned air of a celebrity who has lost his mojo but can't admit...
...salient stats are North American revenue. ?Fahrenheit?: just over $119 million. ?The Passion?: just over $370 million - more than three times as much - to rank ninth on the domestic list of all-time money earners. (To be sure, constantly rising ticket prices skew this list. Interestingly, in Box Office Mojo?s ranking of real-dollar all-timers, ?The Passion,? at #51, is only the fifth top-grossing religious epic, following the 1956 ?The Ten Commandments? at #5, the 1959 ?Ben-Hur? at 13, ?The Robe? at 43 and ?The Bells of St. Mary...
...second-order reform is sold with five-star trimmings as a "once in a generation" windfall. Costello talks up an agenda for solving the intergenerational crisis that lies ahead, but it is the bureaucrats who are showing leadership and doing the heavy thinking; the Treasurer needs to find his mojo if the government wins a fourth term...