Word: shepherding
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...long journey, but we made it," said Bill Shepherd, the lone American aboard. He wasn't talking about the 33 orbits the Soyuz flew while chasing the space station through the heavens, but the years of planning, drafting, wrangling and false starts that had led to the opening of this $100 million monument to the dream of space colonization...
...Nicolas Cage put big bucks in the union's treasure chest and the spotlight of glamour on the little people. That doesn't mean the rank and file is itching for more picket-line time. "The actors just went through the longest strike in their history," says Ira Shepherd, who was lead negotiator for the advertisers. "That will have a moderating effect on their desire to do it again next year...
That which does not kill Lance Armstrong only serves to give NBC more fodder. Using John Tesh music and a Cybill Shepherd lens, the network could have filmed a whole docudrama to tell the story of cyclist Armstrong, who came back from testicular cancer to win the Tour de France twice--only to be smacked down by a car on a lonely French road just weeks before these Olympics. He fractured a vertebra in his neck that day. "We were in the middle of nowhere," he said. "The next car to come by was my wife an hour...
...road trips. Jersey Girl was the first song at our wedding. We played Born to Run on the way to the hospital to have our first child. And The Ties That Bind has never failed us. With Bruce still outdoing himself at 50, we're counting on him to shepherd us into middle age and beyond...
When Israel was working on a secret nuclear program in the 1960s, satirist Tom Lehrer captured the rationale succinctly: "'The Lord's our shepherd,' says the psalm, but just in case, we better get a bomb." Israel was following the U.S., Britain, the Soviet Union, France and China. India joined the club too, followed eventually by Pakistan. And today North Korea, Iran, Iraq and Libya are knocking at the door...