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Other winners included local favorite community bulletin board site Craig’s List for community, the popular search engine Google.com for “best practices,” Inside.com for best news site, satirical newsletter The Onion for best humor site, and Peter Pan’s Home Page for best Weird site...
...only just in my heart," she says. Her concept of evil is less abstract than David's. The Bible is replete with instances in which "Jesus may not be the author of evil, but He permitted it [for reasons of His own]," she notes. She recalls His telling Peter after the Last Supper that Satan has asked "to sift you like wheat," a metaphor suggesting agony...
...went, helped America make sense of a period of social turmoil in a way no news report ever could. In a way, O'Connor's media wake even outstripped that for Jack Lemmon, who died less than a week later, though TV actors usually land far lower on St. Peter's It List. Lemmon was praised as a master actor; but O'Connor was hailed as a national emblem, as history...
...Crucial help came from a former rival. Australian consultant Peter Phillips picked up "one by one" the five key organizers of the wildly successful Games in Sydney, which beat out Beijing by two votes back in 1993, and made them China's exclusive counselors. For more than two months last year, Phillips and friends spent 16-hour days in Beijing helping craft key documents. When the International Olympic Committee sent an evaluation crew to grill the committee, Phillips and his team suggested answers the Chinese might have muffed, such as making them omit the usual "evil-cult" epithet from comments...
...Attention to detail did not come cheap. Disney balked at the proposed budget of $208 million. No one knew how well a jingoistic American anthem would sound in the important overseas markets, "so we had to figure zero for Japan," says Disney studio chief Peter Schneider. He would later ask Bay to reshoot an inflammatory scene in which a civilian Japanese dentist working in Hawaii was depicted as a spy for his homeland...