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...rescue operation finally moved into high gear at midweek, with 33,000 workers deployed throughout the disaster region. Using specially trained German shepherd dogs and directional microphones lowered into cavities in the rubble, they were still rinding survivors in the wreckage. On Friday three people, including a six-month-old infant in Lioni, were rescued after more than five days of entrapment. Earlier, workers sifting through the ruined hospital at Sant' Angelo de' Lombardi found three babies still alive. Among them was Carmencita Antoniello, born prematurely just five days before the quake. She had been trapped...
...them, his heart was filled with pity for them, because they were worried and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. --Matthew...
...scenes most likely taking place simultaneously in the rooms in Kirkland directly above the Junior Common Room, those of actual students. Instead of aiding the success of the show by bringing an extra dimension of realism to it, this aspect detracts from the show for the same reason Cybil Shepherd flopped on the screen: she could never play anything but herself in her films, and so her characters did not benefit from the careful analysis and mental exercise actors must usually perform when preparing for a role--and she did not require any more than a smidgen of concentration, indispensable...
Instead of highlighting revenge, these stories radiate an innocent acceptance of the beauty and strangeness of life. Metamorphosis is constant; the shapes of people, animals and things can dissolve in an instant. In The Little Shepherd, a maiden tells the hero about her life of late: "Ugly Slave threw me into the well, and I turned into a fish, then into fishbones thrown out the window. From fishbones I changed into a tree seed, next into a tree that grew and grew, and finally into firewood you cut. Now, every day while you're away, I become lovely Bargaglina...
...conversion may have to be a journey away from the priesthood to the fatherhood of the forlorn Bexley family. It is a measure of this fine first novel's catholicity - with a lower-case c- that the choice seems almost irrelevant. In or out of the collar, this Shepherd seems at last to have found his calling...