Word: nicked
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Nothing could be more old-fashioned than animating puppets by minutely adjusting their movements one frame at a time, but Nick Park's Chicken Run showed that the painstaking art of stop-motion animation could produce poultry worth laughing with and caring about. If the box office starts raining Cats & Dogs (I can't say for sure; I wasn't shown the film), it will be because the animals display amusingly complex behavior--because the film is, for all its cute tricks, recognizably human...
Karen Hughes didn't like what she was hearing. Sitting in the Roosevelt Room of the West Wing on the morning of June 21, she listened with pursed lips as Nick Calio, the White House legislative director, insisted that President Bush should threaten to veto the patients' bill of rights--legislation aimed at protecting people from the bureaucratic whims of profit-driven HMOs. The bill is badly flawed, Calio argued, and the V word is the only way to force Congress to make it more to Bush's liking. Hughes jumped into the fray. "Once we say veto," she replied...
...Nick Brown...
...Second-year law school student Nick Brown may not have won the million dollars, but he has certainly been a recognized survivor this year...
...started with an auspicious season opener at the East Stroudsburg in mid-November. The Crimson boasted many terrific performances, including seven top-five finishes. At 125-pounds, junior Kevin El-Hayek took fifth. Matt Picarsic (133-pounds) grappled to second place while his younger brother Nick (144-pounds) finished a solid fourth. Freshman standout Jesse Jantzen (149-pounds) set the tone for his incredible rookie season, securing second and garnering the most falls in the tournament-3 in 2:48. Junior heavyweight Dawid Rechul captured second, while seniors Adam Truitt (174-pounds) and Volpe (184-pounds) finished third and fourth...