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...speech was supposed to be a bold call for unity and understanding, not a jihad. McCain ended with a story of one of his Vietnamese captors, the "Good Samaritan" who loosened McCain's torture ropes. On Christmas, when McCain stood alone in the courtyard, the captor walked up to him and with his sandal drew a cross in the dirt. "Both prisoner and guard stood wordlessly there for a minute or two, venerating the cross, until the guard rubbed it out and walked away," said McCain, using the third person because Salter was worried that McCain would choke up otherwise...
...excess smoke escaped through the windows, and a Good Samaritan called the fire department with reports of "smoke coming out of a funny building across the street from Adams...
...rush of cranky customers began around Christmas. Just as hordes of frazzled parents were descending on shopping malls, crowds of feverish, aching bodies were flooding the emergency department at Thunderbird Samaritan Medical Center outside Phoenix, Ariz., desperate for relief from this winter's nasty, widespread strain of flu. On many days, a couple of hundred patients, from wheezing senior citizens to crying babies in their weary mothers' arms, clogged the waiting room, sitting for up to six hours to see a doctor. It didn't take long for the 35 beds in Thunderbird's ED, and many on its other...
...Porter, Gibson really takes the suffering-for-your-art mantra to a new level, kind of like the Samaritan who lies down on the oil slick so you can walk on him to get over the puddle. With each new movie, he ups the ante, symbolically slathering more mustard on the dog so that it becomes more about how much torment he can take rather than about the movie itself. The evolution of this Method throughout his career shoves subtlety where it don't shine. Mad Max meets Martin Riggs meets Braveheart equals Porter, the con man with a heart...
...told the audience about a two-and-a-half year-old named Elizabeth, who loved the story `The Good Samaritan.' Satcher said the child's father would read her the story and then quiz her on it. She always said the priest helped the injured man in the story. When he asked why she continually answered the question incorrectly, she said she didn't like the way the story went...