Word: samaritanism
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...many are wondering what ever happened to the dentist. "So far, Clinton really hasn't done anything good or bad," shrugs Karen Harris-Heidenreich, 32, sitting in the emergency room at the Good Samaritan Hospital last week with her six-year-old daughter, who hurt her arm jumping off a couch. A Clinton supporter who also backs universal coverage, Harris-Heidenreich couldn't care less about the President's personal and legal scandals -- so long as he gets results. "Look, if Clinton can change this country, then he can have all the affairs he wants and he can even...
...lucky, some good samaritan will come along and log her off. If she is unlucky, she may come back the next day and find herself not able to get into her account as a result of some hacker's installing a new password unknown...
...heads East Gates Ministries International, which aids churches in China. Franklin runs two international relief agencies, Samaritan's Purse and World Medical Mission. Both preachers have an enduring passion for motorcycles -- but they differ about the disposition of their father's temporal kingdom. Ned has distanced himself from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and hopes it will go forward under leadership that has "absolute integrity and a mandate from God." Says Ned: "I do not see that anybody can step into my father's place." Franklin knows there's only one Billy but sits on the association's executive committee...
Jeff Bridges cuts a powerful figure as the melancholy Good Samaritan, alternately rescuing passengers in flashbacks to the crash, solving people's problems and proving his privileged status by teetering on roofs of tall buildings in a dark trenchcoat. Bridges is especially convincing in his holier-than-thou attitude, although his more rapturous love scenes with Carla and his wife ring insincere...
...loss of a great poetic tradition. The speaker grieves that "no one will ever bother to cast again" the stunning images he created. The tone becomes less pessimistic as Schnackenberg begins to blur the lines between past and present: "There is a flood remnant...As if the Samaritan woman's water jar/Had been hurled against the wall, and was still dripping...Or it may be only a freshly washed floor/ Whose little lakes are...swept around by the custodian's mop...They say the ice-cold well of martyrdom brims into the present here...