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...about Belichick and his team. For a healthy dose of anti-Pats vitriol, just visit the I Hate New England Patriots and Evil Patriots blogs on the Web. Belichick is asked if this venom gets under his shredded collar. He cites The Best and the Brightest, the late David Halberstam's classic analysis of Vietnam-era leaders who were more obsessed with winning the public-relations battle than the actual fight on the ground. "I think David's book is a good example of how not to do it," Belichick tells TIME. "Run a war based on public opinion...
...David knew he was David Halberstam, in that he knew he could honor people and ensure a forgotten war would no longer be forgotten,” Power said...
Power was briefly moved to tears as she recalled her first meeting with Halberstam, whom she said she had idolized. She added a word about how the author used his persona to drive his mission...
Ryan said that Halberstam, a ceaseless worker, was already working on a book about the 1958 NFL Championship Game at the time of his death...
...Halberstam was killed in April 2007 in an auto accident in Menlo Park...