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...straight-ahead rusher, Lemon played "very well" enough to earn Patriot League Co-Offensive Player of the Week for his efforts...
Mark Miller is a transplanted corner back now playing at free safety. While teammate Charlie Cruddup is leading the Patriot League in interceptions so far this season, Miller took that title last season...
...things that mattered to him were his wife, children and grandchildren. He considered himself a true Russian patriot who had grown disillusioned with the Soviet system. And his handlers, despite initial skepticism, eventually shared that view. "I think his motivation went back to World War II," says the CIA officer who worked with Polyakov in New Delhi. "He contrasted the horror, the carnage, the things he had fought for, against the duplicity and corruption he saw developing in Moscow." Says a CIA headquarters officer who handled Polyakov's case for 15 years: "He articulated a sense that...
...more specifically the links the illegal drug trafficking organization has to the United States government. Ryan even gets to ball out the president played by Donald Moffat. With all of these differences, it seems as if Clancy should have switched the names of the two novels, making this one "Patriot Games" and the other dealing with the I.R.A. to "Clear and Present Danger." But who has the nerve to stand up to a potboiler novelist who has made millions from his thrilling action-adventure flicks. If Jack Ryan were a real person, I'm sure he would have no problem...
These plot distinctions make this film more intellectually stimulating than "Patriot Games." It also removes the xenophobic malaise which over rode the entirety of the former blockbuster and replaces it with a cynical, probably more truthful look into the Washington political machine. Instead of bad guys breaking into his house, trespassing on the home and family Ryan has tried so hard to maintain, here we have Ryan confronting the drug lords in a tete a tete which would make any undercover CIA person scared to his bones...