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Like Jody and Bud Shipley, many people have moments they wish they could go back to and do over, knowing what they know now. It's a powerful fantasy and the premise of the 1993 film Groundhog Day, in which Bill Murray has to relive the same day until he finally gets it right--and wins Andie MacDowell. Even if the fateful moments aren't so much mistakes as simply choices, the "what if" can remain tantalizing across the years. It impels a lot of folks to try to look up an old flame...
...Angular, amiable and seldom at a loss for a quip, Pickard, a blunt Queens native, recently joked to colleagues that life reminded him of "Groundhog Day," the Bill Murray farce about a man doomed to repeat the same 24 hours over and over again. "The briefings begin at 5:55 a.m. By 9 a.m. I'm brain dead, and we're just starting," he told one friend...
...admitted that with only 11,143 agents, the hunt for the anthrax perpetrators meant the bureau had to reduce its effort to track the Sept. 11 clues--and, in the process, perhaps reducing its chances of uncovering and preventing the next attack. "Every day is Groundhog Day," sighed an overtaxed investigator whose morning begins before dawn. "By 9 a.m. I'm brain dead and we're just starting." On Friday Ridge disclosed that the strains of anthrax bacteria sent to Florida, New York and Washington were "indistinguishable," which suggested a concerted attack by a disciplined network. So did the origin...
...admitted that with only 11,143 agents, the hunt for the anthrax perpetrators meant the bureau had to reduce its effort to track the Sept. 11 clues?and, in the process, perhaps reducing its chances of uncovering and preventing the next attack. "Every day is Groundhog Day," sighed an overtaxed investigator whose morning begins before dawn. "By 9 a.m. I'm brain dead and we're just starting." On Friday Ridge disclosed that the strains of anthrax bacteria sent to Florida, New York and Washington were "indistinguishable," which suggested a concerted attack by a disciplined network. So did the origin...
...Groundhog Day? Not quite. But there is something awfully familiar about Secretary of State Colin Powell's upbeat assessment of the U.S.-China relationship following his weekend visit to Beijing. It appears to suggest that the Bush administration will pursue the same basic China policy as the Clinton administration did - which was, of course, essentially the same policy as the one pursued by Papa Bush...