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Although the gambling meccas provide ultimate fighting the glitter of legitimacy, reality TV has given the sport its huge momentum. The first season of The Ultimate Fighter on Spike was a combination of The Real World and Survivor, with two rival teams living under the same roof and vying for contracts with the UFC. So much testosterone proved to be a combustible package, with infighting, drunken frolics, doors bashed in and one competitor urinating on another's bed. The payoff? Most episodes ended with a vicious fight to eliminate a contestant. The ratings spiked for Spike, and the Griffin-Bonnar...
What they're searching for is the shtetl from which Jonathan's grandfather escaped, and it becomes increasingly clear that it was wiped out a half-century earlier by the Nazis. They find, at last, one survivor, Lista (Laryssa Lauret), who is also a collector but on a grander scale than Jonathan can imagine. Her aim is to keep alive the memory of the entire wiped-out village by hoarding its detritus. There is, as it turns out, one other survivor, whose identity should probably not be revealed here. Alas, the tragic dimensions of Everything Is Illuminated do not quite...
...Describing herself under the destroyed truck, gashes on her face, she writes, "I made the remark that I wouldn't be pretty again LOL." The medic teases her for wearing a matching bra-and-panty set in a war zone. But in quieter moments of the blog, tinges of survivor's guilt emerge: "Why did I walk away from a wreck that killed a comrade and a friend...
Memoirs of an Invisible Man is a flat-out thriller, accurately described by its narrator-hero on the opening page as "quite genuinely exciting and superficial." Nicholas Halloway, 34, a bland, likable Manhattan securities analyst, is the sole survivor of a bizarre industrial accident that has rendered him utterly transparent. Terrified of the Government intelligence agents who want him for secret scientific study, he goes on the run. His invisibility, ironically, makes him conspicuous; he cannot drive, open a door or carry a newspaper without calling attention to himself. Survival depends on meticulously relearning to live everyday life...
...destroyed by the Nazis. With his hands humbly clasped in front of him, the Pope walked into the main hall as the choir sang, ''Shalom alechem,'' or ''peace be with you." After two Hebrew hymns, and the blowing of the shofar ram's horn, the son of a Holocaust survivor and then the synagogue's rabbi spoke. When it came time for Benedict to rise, his remarks wouldn't stray much from the original text. But there was something happening that went beyond words. It was in the way the Pope listened so intently to his hosts...