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...noble or twisted loners; this was the first all-star western romp. It's in no way a terrific film; director John Sturges was a pedestrian showman. But to watch McQueen, Coburn, Yul Brynner, Charles Bronson and Eli Wallach fight for screen time is to see a fabulous showdown of egos--like Meet the Fockers, with six-guns instead of sex puns...
Iran on Monday dramatically raised the stakes in its showdown with the West over its nuclear program by threatening to resume work at a sealed uranium-enrichment research facility. Iran had previously agreed to have the enrichment equipment at the Natanz facility sealed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as a good-faith gesture towards the three European countries with which it had been negotiating. Tehran insists on exercising its right to enrich uranium as part of a civilian nuclear energy program, but the same technology would allow Iran to build a nuclear weapon - and the Western powers...
...Harvard puts together 40 minutes like those last 15 at Lavietes on Saturday, yet another March showdown between Dartmouth and Harvard will live up to its billing...
Perhaps liberated by his contrite address to the nation on Sunday night, President Bush was feisty and frisky at Monday's White House press conference. The event-one of his least favorite presidential rituals-comes as Bush faces a potentially grave showdown with Republican legislators over his decision to authorize limited eavesdropping in the U.S. without court approval. But the President poked fun at himself for the rarity of his news conferences, bridled at a reporter's suggestion that he was assuming "unchecked power" during wartime, and reminded everyone who was in charge when April Ryan of American Urban Radio...
...much about what just happened as much as what we’re looking at.”But what are they looking at? What will it take to reach 5-1? A win over none other than arch-nemesis Dartmouth. Only the traditionally most heated, closely-contested showdown in women’s collegiate hockey. However forced the stress put upon these six games may feel, there’s absolutely nothing artificial about this rivalry. The home-and-home series is a two-game season unto itself and the meeting in Cambridge is the one game that?...