Word: saviors
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...NCAA eligibility by declaring for the draft. Only 18 years old, he was not automatically placed on the list of available players and had to "opt-in" to the draft. In the process, he had to forgo his remaining three years at B.U. and is now the latest goaltending savior for the Islanders as the first netminder ever selected with the No. 1 pick overall...
...hasn't laid eggs: it becomes a chicken with its head cut off. This fowl existence is driving even Ginger (Julia Sawalha, known to U.S. viewers as young Saffy on the Brit-import sitcom Absolutely Fabulous) close to desperation. Then, out of the sky, a savior drops with a thud. He is Rocky Roads (Gibson), the "flying rooster" from a traveling circus, and he vainly promises to teach the hens--this coop of flighty, flightless birds--how to soar to freedom. But while Rocky the flying churl plays up to "all the beautiful English chicks," Mrs. Tweedy has bigger, nastier...
...River Central High School in Carriere, Miss., was scheduled for April 12, a mere week before the first anniversary of the Columbine tragedy. Like students all over the country this year, Brandon Smith, 16, had been drilled on how to survive school violence. And now Smith, cast as the Savior in one of the fellowship's skits, joked a bit tensely to his best friend and girlfriend, "You all, I'm Jesus in this skit; so if anybody gets shot, it'll probably...
...self-proclaimed savior's speeches are filled with religious imagery, claims of divine apparitions and stories of supernatural powers--not needing food, for example, because heaven sustains him. But his R.U.F. feeds on earthly stuff: the illegal sale of diamonds smuggled out through neighboring Liberia. Sankoh has ties to that country's President, Charles Taylor, whom he met in Libya during military training in the '80s and who also blasted his way to power. Sankoh may be moving his base to Liberia...
...rise in sea level. The burning of fossil fuels spews great pollution, making the air in some cities almost unbreathable. The current rate of species loss is unparalleled, except for the period after the meteor hit the Earth, killing off the dinosaurs. No one is calling Gore the savior of the Earth, but we will be calling ourselves fools if we continue to believe that nothing is going...