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...Prime Minister Tony Blair, Nicholas Farrell catches the vocal tics and eager body language almost too precisely. Alex Jennings' George W. Bush cannily suggests the confidence and drive beneath the cowboy persona. And the dramatic high point comes when U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell (Joe Morton) battles with Nick Sampson's silkily threatening French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin over the all-important right to a second United Nations resolution. If all that sounds more like a news story than a play, Hare the playwright has defeated Hare the propagandist. The veteran dramatist knows that great characters make great...
ANALYSIS: Junior runningback Nick Hartigan averaged 150 rushing yards and 30 receiving yards a game last year while scoring 15 touchdowns. That’s the good news. The bad news is that Brown’s most experienced returning quarterback registered nine completions all of last season, and its top wideout, Lonnie Hill, has decided to take the year...
...very videotape with which he advertised his beheading of American communications-tower repairman Nick Berg in May, Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, the most wanted al-Qaeda terrorist in Iraq, appended a theological message. Berg's murder, the masked man intoned, was sanctioned by Islam's holiest texts. "Has the time not come for you to lift the sword, which the master of the Messengers [Muhammad] was sent with?" al-Zarqawi asked. "The Prophet ... has ordered to cut off the heads of some of the prisoners of Badr ... He is our example...
...husband Mitch Epstein), then an award-winning documentary filmmaker before turning feature-film director at 30. Today she's also a producer, a film professor at Columbia University and a horticulturist so fanatical that it's beginning to affect her day job. "They've rewritten the script for [author Nick Hornby's] Fever Pitch, and I love it," she says. "They've signed Drew Barrymore. But they want to do it next month, and I have to return to my garden. They can't believe that's the reason...
...office, Bush focused on fulfilling his promise to cut taxes $1.6 trillion over 10 years. Democrats called the new President high-handed and stubborn, especially for one who could hardly claim popular support for so ambitious a policy; they were thinking maybe $500 billion. Bush's congressional liaison, Nick Calio, suggested to the President that he cut the price tag to buy some votes. But Bush's answer was always the same: "It's not time yet. We're going to say $1.6 trillion. People are going to get upset about it, but we're going to say it over...