I CAN ONLY IMAGINE:

Thursday December 7, 2006 By Daniel Gilhooly The New Zealand Herald
Imagine Daniel Carter, only he's faster and can kick the ball further. Or perhaps Carl Hayman with a little extra horse power. Or Jerry Collins packing a couple more centimetres on the old biceps.
Dodgers emerge as big winners The Arizona Republic
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - Hard to imagine a team signing future Hall of Famer Greg Maddux and having only the second -best success in its division at baseball's annual winter meetings.
UMass's Baylark is a brush with greatness Boston Globe
AMHERST -- The canvas is perched in front of him; only he can see it. A film of charcoal covers it; you have to imagine that as well. In the deserted University of Massachusetts football locker room, he's wielding an invisible eraser, sweeping away the veneer in precise arcs and circles and lines.
THE BIG RAZZ INTERVIEW: I'M IN THE FIRING LINE Daily Record
ROBERT CARLYLE knows all about playing baddies - he's been one in Bond and even chilled the blood as Hitler. And now he's back in a new fantasy film set to rival Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings - as, you guessed it, a baddie.
For James Carpenter, it's the happy humbug season Inside Bay Area
THE LINE from the Rev. Jim Jones to Ebenezeer Scrooge may be more direct than you imagine.
Ashley Adams named The Tribune's County Volleyball Player of the Year again The San Luis Obispo Tribune
Imagine a volleyball team that brings back only one returning starter from the year before. The setter, passers and most of the hitters are new.
Winter meetings a magic kingdom all their own The Daily News of Newburyport
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - You never leave the Baseball Winter Meetings the way you arrived. For me, the four days represented the unprecedented feat of leaving the Sunshine State paler than when I left Logan Airport.
ELIZABETH OHENE CELEBRATES STATUS OF LITERARY DEITY Launch of two books of her heroic writings in Accra The Ghanaian Chronicle
With Mrs. Esther Ofori as madam of ceremonies noted journalist Kwaku Sakyi Addo's magnificent review caps Ministers event. Reproduced, the BBC reporter's review: My Chairman, fellow reporters, I wasn't that old in 1979, but I was definitely past pubescence; i.e. old enough to commit pregnancy.
Give forgiveness a chance Baltimore Sun
Imagine if the anniversary of John Lennon's murder became a day of forgiving - a difficult virtue with the potential power to heal One Saturday morning 14 years ago, Veda Allen's son, Everette Farmer, 22, went out to run some errands. What happened next, she doesn't remember too clearly - only, really, the knock at the door, the one many mothers dread.
Milwaukee mourns 3 killed in blast AP via Yahoo! News
Melvin Kuster retired after 41 years working for Falk Corp., the century-old factory that also once employed his father. Now his only child has died there.
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