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...truth is that Hollywood loves a good war, or a bad one, almost as much as Wall Street did last week. For one thing, the outbreak of war means that, 10 or 20 years down the road, someone will make an honest film denouncing it. ("All Quiet on the Western Front" came a dozen years after WWI ended, "Patton" 25 years after WWII, "MASH" 17 years after Korea and "Platoon" more than a decade after the last U.S. helicopter escaped Saigon.) For another, war gives members of the industrial-entertainment complex - a business designed to offer diversion from the little...
...military's early restraint suggests a question: How will America face the post-Saddam world - brazenly, with Old Glory flying, or with quiet authority? Will it be hubris or humility? Humility was, of course, George W. Bush's campaign promise. "If we're an arrogant nation, they'll resent us," he said in his second presidential debate against Al Gore in 2000. "If we're a humble nation but strong, they'll welcome...
...Doctors at the Nanfang Hospital may have done all they can, but Chinese medical officials have not. World health authorities are frustrated with China's secretive officials for keeping quiet so long about an epidemic that appears to have first struck in Guangdong province back in November. After months of media blackout, Beijing now maintains that the worst has passed. Only five patients in China have died, they say, while 305 have fallen ill with atypical pneumonia?a figure that dates back to mid-February. But forays into several hospitals in the provincial capital, Guangzhou, show that at ground zero...
Kolarik’s goal silenced the heavily pro-Big Red crowd, which couldn't bear the thought of losing another ECAC heartbreaker to Harvard. The fans were ghastly quiet with just over 30 seconds left to play, when Nowak sent the puck trickling toward the empty Cornell goal. The puck was on line to enter the net and end the game, but it hit a loose chunk of ice eight feet away and skidded wide...
...Timmy’s a quiet guy,” Moore said. “When you look at him, he’s a small guy, pretty unassuming, doesn’t play a tremendously physical game, and doesn’t attract a lot of attention off the ice. That’s why he doesn’t get a lot of recognition...