What I'll remember most vividly about Gus Van Sant's extraordinary " Elephan t" is not the violent climax -- his film is a fictional evocation of the shootings at Columbine High School -- but the state of grace that precedes it.

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Referencing English poet William Blake, Ovenden described the "state of grace" as "a thing of wondrous beauty".

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He ran down the great wastes of the roaring forties, reaching a state of grace in a world, he felt, with no past or future.

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The church claims years of auditing and study can take followers to a state of grace called ?

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But between 2000 and 2003 Sinai-Grace and eight other Detroit hospitals were forced to cut a third of their staff, and the state had to come forward with a fifty-million-dollar bailout to avert their bankruptcy.

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