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...commitment to finish off the regime in Baghdad, and a battle plan for a quick and decisive victory. The administration hopes to provide Cheney with both before he flies out. The commitment part is there. But the battle plan will be more difficult. Saddam's Iraq is a tougher nut to crack than Taliban-held Afghanistan; Hussein still has a large army and a considerable amount of military hardware at his disposal, one that possibly includes chemical and biological capability. The absence of an obvious Northern Alliance equivalent to do America's infantry work by proxy means U.S. troops would...
Yuki tried to instill discipline in his son, but Apolo was a tough nut. He chewed rocks in the schoolyard, hung out with a dangerous crowd in his early teens and made an art of defying his father. "I was rough. If my dad said yes, I said no. That's the way it was for years...
...team (along with overt public racism when he and Piccolo became the Bears' first interracial roomies). But it cuts a key scene in which Piccolo calls Sayers a "nigger" to get a rise out of him, an apparent sop to contemporary sensibilities. Phifer's Sayers is a tougher nut to crack than Williams'; as Piccolo, Maher is a charming wiseacre, but a little too sprightly. Caan's wry, macho Piccolo was a football player. Maher's is an especially buff comedian...
...nut's a genius," maestro George Szell reportedly said about the eccentric Canadian pianist Glenn Gould. The quote describes comix artist Chris Ware as well. Author of last year's critically-acclaimed graphic novel, "Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth," Ware has finally come out with issue fifteen in his comicbook series "The Acme Novelty Library." After a year and a half of waiting, rest assured that his reputation(s) remain intact...
...which scrambled to catch up with the Sept. 11 attack, now scrambles to catch up with the anthrax attackers. Agents still clung to the theory that it's a nut job - a deranged individual or a homegrown group with a grudge to settle, perhaps squirreled away in a seedy room in New Jersey. But that's still just a theory, chipped away almost hourly by new reports of suspiciously high grade anthrax...