Word: relics
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...seems no relic associated with ELVIS PRESLEY is too trivial to fetch a bundle. A North Carolina man last week collected $455 by auctioning three tablespoons of water he claims once occupied a cup from which Elvis drank while performing. Wade Jones says that after an Elvis concert he attended in 1977, he was given the cup by a security guard. For decades he preserved the liquid in a sealed glass vial, but after seeing a grilled cheese sandwich ostensibly bearing an image of the Virgin Mary garner $28,000 on eBay, he decided to part with the holy Elvis...
Maybe not. The story has a sucker punch, which reveals both the importance of family and the ways loyalty can trump official morality. Like Frankie, the film is a tough creature with a heart. Like Eastwood, it's a relic that dazzles you with its footwork, daring and class. --By Richard Corliss...
...masterful job--and a heroic one, with TV cameras focused on the blood seeping through his sock. It was so gory, it might have been an episode of CSI: Curt Schilling's Incision. After the game, though, someone discarded Schilling's blood-red sock, potentially the most treasured relic since Veronica's veil. It could have netted a bundle on eBay...
...Labor won federal office in 1983 it kept its election promise to stop the project, despite court challenges from the Tasmanian government. "A brown ditch, leech-ridden and unattractive to the majority of people," is how Liberal premier Robin Gray infamously described it then; the wires are the first relic we'll see of his thwarted dream. Gray must never have seen the Irenabyss. The still corridor of water twists between high walls of speckled rock, the roar of the rapids lost behind us. Extraordinarily sharp reflections look etched on the surface of the cold water, which is thought...
...examined whether the case still stacked up - a lapse about which Butler said only, "We have recorded our surprise." Blair said he "accepted full personal responsibility ? for any errors that were made," but he didn't apologize. The notion of resigning over such grand mistakes now seems a quaint relic of a different constitutional era. Instead, Blair renovated his case for war, telling M.P.s it was good to get rid of Saddam in any event. Are people buying his argument? In two by-elections last week, Labour lost one safe seat and nearly lost another - not to the opposition Conservatives...