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...This sort of hurry-up can induce bidding wars for unknowns. Colin Farrell, an Irish actor whose only notable film work was in Joel Schumacher's scruffy "Tigerland," snagged the title role in a Willis war drama, "Hart's War," when Edward Norton dropped out. Farrell got a whopping $2.5 million for the role. From the studio's side, that's called panic...
...showed how far he had come since failing a reporter's pop quiz on world leaders in the run-up to the primaries. His much criticized choice of former Defense Secretary Dick Cheney as a running mate suddenly looked a lot smarter. And it didn't hurt to have Colin Powell sitting in the debate audience next to Laura Bush...
...stakes were higher than mangled syllables and exaggerated anecdotes. With the reminder that the world was indeed still a very dangerous place, did George Bush's passing performance on foreign policy in last week's debate now seem adequate enough? Does his reassuring team of Dick Cheney and Colin Powell trump Al Gore's expertise? How do we feel about Gore's rather expansive vision of national interests and the value of nation building now that the threats suddenly seem more vivid...
...Bush and his team of advisers - many of them members of the Reagan-Bush foreign policy brain trust - dismiss the significance of what Gore calls the "new strategic agenda" and take a dim view of the efficacy of U.S. interventions. Bush adheres closely to the doctrine articulated by Colin Powell, his favored future secretary of state: military interventions "need to be in our vital interest, the mission needs to be clear and the exit strategy obvious." Local conflicts are better left to regional powers. Bush considers the Clinton-Gore deployments in Haiti and Somalia ill-advised attempts at "nation building...
...years ago, the O'Brien family of Dripping Springs, Texas, committed hara-kiri American-style: they unplugged their TV. Dennis O'Brien, a salesman, recalls zoning out on an NBA game when his toddler Colin invaded his Miller-time moment. "He looked at me, then he turned off the TV and said, 'Read me a book!' What was a father...