No matter where the "Les Misérables" folks end up on the Oscar stage, it will be a long ways from their humble beginnings with the movie.
The first had its beginnings with the Oak Cliff Assembly of God Church, where he was a pastor at the time, more than a decade ago.
He has come a long way from his beginnings with the Giants, when he reported to camp overweight, flabby and in condition more for a banquet than football.
Now, with the 80th-anniversary season of the festival nigh, comes the celebratory documentary "Never Stand Still," which looks at Jacob's Pillow from its beginnings with the choreographer Ted Shawn.
We've made some good beginnings with the New Start Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
The town of Qu'Appelle (624 residents in 2006) had historic beginnings with fur trading posts in this area, and is located within this R.M.. Qu'Appelle was first named Troy, and was an administrative centre of the North West Territories.
"On this day of new beginnings, with hearts lifted high in hope, may we be a people at peace among ourselves and a blessing to other nations," prayed Dr. Ingrid Mattson, president of the Islamic Society of North America.
There were plenty of predecessors to her type of detective story writing - but after a few tentative beginnings, with fantasies and sentimental short stores, it was not long before she settled into this genre, for no apparent reason.
Tells about founder, Karl Baedeker & its beginnings with a guide to the Rhine, published in 1835.
For him, it has to do with new beginnings, with creativity itself.
