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...worst-kept secrets in Washington is that Washington doesn't know very much about Iran's nuclear program. For a nation spending over $800 million a week on intelligence gathering - at a time when an international confrontation over Iran's nuclear program is escalating - that's grim news...
...husband campaigned for him. But the hard truth is, she doesn't have much wiggle room. National security is the toughest test for a Democrat, particularly for a woman and especially for a woman so associated with feminine causes like child care and education. Her chief strategist has a grim assessment of what Hillary is up against on that front. The country may be ready for a woman President, Bill has privately told friends, but the first one to make it is more likely to be a Republican in the Margaret Thatcher mold...
...This is not the place for a review of World Trade Center; Richard Schickel has already performed that service. I'll just say that the film is a meticulous, intermittently potent recreation of the grim chaos at ground zero. The movie's power comes from its indirection. The first attack is shown by a shadow of a plane passing across one off the buildings, the second by the sound of a crash. We see a single body plummet from one of the high floors, but others are registered only by the occasional, sickening explosive thud...
...coastline to Tyre and beyond. The move effectively cuts off the Hizballah fighters dug into the hillside around Naqoura two miles to the south. The Hizballah men are now surrounded and unless they can evade the enclosing Israeli troops and escape to the north, they face a grim but certain fate. But hours after the Israeli thrust, Hizballah rockets are still being fired from near Naqoura, suggesting that those battle-hardened guerrillas intend to fight to the last...
...gamer playing the role of a U.N. commander during the Rwandan genocide is confronted with grim trade-offs, such as choosing whether to fax the U.N. or save the Prime Minister. Licensed to schools, the game has been incorporated into thousands of curriculums in Canada, Britain and South Africa, and will hit the U.S. this fall. Next up from Resolve Labs: Pax Prosecutor, about the indictment of Slobodan Milosevic for war crimes...