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...troubled, angry young man who-despite his well-concealed heart of gold-manages to get himself addicted to drugs and booze. After a string of arrests he winds up in a Minnesota rehab center, where he befriends a scary-funny gangster and falls in love with a tragic recovering crack addict. Redemption ensues...
...reeled at the severity of the incident. The similar JetBlue incident on Sept. 21 came to mind, in which an airplane had to make an emergency landing with its front landing gear stuck sideways. And who could forget the tragic Southwest Airlines catastrophe—which came barely two weeks before the Midwest incident—in which a jet trying to land in heavy snow and ice slid off a runway at Midway International Airport in Chicago, crashing through a fence, injuring 10 people, and killing a 6-year...
...blond, she's curvaceously configured, and she has those remarkably proportioned lips. Naturally, in tabloid land, they figure Scarlett Johansson for the latest in the long line of movie bombshells dating back at least to Jean Harlow. That is an image that her appearance as Nola Rice, tragic fulcrum of the plot Woody Allen has devised for his well-received new movie, Match Point, is bound to enhance?except with Johansson herself: "I never think about that stuff. I like to think of myself as, I go to work and I act. It's my professional life...
Beyond being headline news (how often does a major faith admit to retooling its take on the afterlife?), the shift, telegraphed in the 1994 Catechism, should strike most believers as a very good thing. For centuries, Catholic couples lived in fear that in the tragic event that their newborns perished, the infants would go not to heaven but to a cheery yet inaccessible outer parking lot, a locale where they would enjoy eternal happiness but be denied the actual presence of God (and, presumably, of the parents, assuming they reached heaven...
...days later, King returned to Memphis to participate in another march, but what unfolded not only set back the nonviolence campaign but also set him on the path to his tragic fate...