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...flying nun Sally Field returns to TV as a rookie Justice on a divided Supreme Court. The pilot is earnest and jargon laden, like producer John Wells' ER and The West Wing--and as stiff and colorless as a freshly starched robe. A big problem is Field's Kate Nolan, a dull, middle-of-the-road pillar of common sense whose tough streak Field undercuts with her doe-eyed, first-day-of-school demeanor. There are hints of intrigue, but the lifeless characters and boilerplate dialogue need judicial review...
Before the attacks, Nolan estimates, his consulting business was split equally between training companies to collect information on competitors and preventing rivals from collecting information on them. Today, he estimates, for every company that wants help digging up proprietary information, seven come to him for assistance in protecting their data. And, notes Nolan, there's a new kind of adversary: terrorists who want to use Western technology against the West. Pharmaceutical and biotech companies in particular should raise their level of awareness, says Jan Herring. "There's a very strong business objective [in] staying on top of these terrorism threats...
...used to commit acts of terror, the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon came as a dark revelation. "Sept. 11 got a lot of people thinking, What is our industry's version of the $300 impenetrable cockpit door that could prevent billions in liabilities?" says John Nolan III, a former SCIP president and the chairman of PHOENIX CONSULTING GROUP. Nolan points to information and technology about dangerous chemicals as a potential target for terrorists. "Liability or embarrassment--those are the forces driving people...
Ealirer in the game, RPI jumped out to a 1-0 lead when junior center Nolan Graham potted a rebound just 7:36 into the game...
What the film, which was written largely in cries, whispers and expletives by Ken Nolan and Steven Zaillian, stresses instead is the sheer anarchy of war: bloody, terrifying, tragic and meaningless except as a test of a fighting man's virtue. Like every other great war movie, Black Hawk Down succeeds because it becomes, almost unintentionally, an antiwar movie--or at least one that can be read that way by anyone so inclined--a relentless catalog of the many absurd and accidental ways you can die when you are ordered into harm...