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Sunday could very well be the official passing of the torch. The young Patriots could deliver the knockout blow to the wobbling and wounded Buffalo Bills. The Pats are playing their best football in seasons, decades, probably ever...
...chunks, hitting a soldier in the head. Says a policeman who was there: "When we saw the officer bleeding, we lost our minds and started shooting." The Palestinian Authority said that militants inside the mosque opened fire first, but eyewitnesses contradicted this claim. By all accounts, the crowd did torch two police vehicles, which according to officials resulted in the death of a police officer...
Bruised egos also resulted, not surprisingly, from the effort to combine the two TV casts for a passing of the torch in the new movie. Nimoy declined a role after he saw how small his part would be. "I told them," he says, "'The lines that you've written to be spoken by somebody named Spock can be easily distributed to any of the other characters on the screen."' Which is what happened: Captain Kirk appears with two lesser members of the old crew: chief engineer "Scotty" (James Doohan) and Ensign Chekov (Walter Koenig). Several members of the Next Generation...
Still, Adams isn't ready to let go of the artsiness torch just...
...wider audience (Dookie has sold 600,000 copies). This summer Green Day is set to pull off a cross- generational coup -- the group will not only tour with the hip annual Lollapalooza music festival, it will also play the nostalgia-laden 25th anniversary of Woodstock. So rock's torch is passed on. Look for Green Day to light some fires...