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You'd think Petersen would have fun staging an airborne showdown, but there's not a scene in Air Force One that wasn't done 10 times better in the underrated Kurt Russell hijacked-airplane thriller, Executive Decision . That movie had the good sense to leave its absurd politics (first Chechen, then Middle Eastern) on the margins, and to focus instead on the scary ordeal of being stuck on a plane piloted by crazies.
Public-relations buzzards are cashing in on the Iraq showdown before it disappears.
The liberal Paris newspaper, Libération, said France was disappointed by Iraq's response to its neutrality in the Iraqi showdown with the United States.
USAT says today's involvement of Rehnquist amounts to a "high noon showdown" between the Clinton administration and Kenneth Starr, and that the issue of Secret Service confidentiality is the most contentious issue yet in Starr's investigation of Lewinsky's relationship with Clinton.
A piece recounts the Scrabble showdown between the world's best players and a computer programmed with all the words in the Scrabble dictionary.