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...huge cast of good actors, James Woods stands out as steely Bob Haldeman, and Joan Allen suggests in deft brush strokes a Pat Nixon condemned to stand by her ungiving man. Hopkins, though, is a failure. He finds neither the timber of Nixon's plummy baritone, with its wonderfully false attempts at intimacy, nor the stature of a career climber who, with raw hands, scaled the mountain and was still not high or big enough...
...Brush With Danger...
Midway through the second period, Princeton forward Matt Brush went down and didn't leave the ice for 10 minutes. Players from both teams took to the ice in order to keep warm...
Thankfully, Brush suffered only a bruised back and should return to action next game. Brush is more fortunate than Boston University freshman Travis Roy, who was paralyzed from the neck down on a similar play earlier this season...
...provided refuge to the Kurds in Iraq, and he does not shrink from similar missions to bring succor to strife-torn countries. "We have a capacity like almost no one else," he says. Former Assistant Secretary of Defense Lawrence Korb finds Shalikashvili much more willing to get involved in brush fires than his predecessor. "Powell wanted low-risk operations," Korb says. "But Shali is not looking for the lowest risk. He thinks the U.S. military can have a useful role in these kinds of missions." Even Shalikashvili, however, has not been able to set forth a coherent intervention doctrine...