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A piece recounts the Scrabble showdown between the world's best players and a computer programmed with all the words in the Scrabble dictionary.
Today's New York Times lead may be the stupidest ever: "A PLAN IS IN WORKS TO PUT OFF A VOTE ON TEST BAN PACT: Clinton Satisfies a Demand by Lott in Effort to Avert Showdown."
Die-hard conservatives are not numerous enough or suicidal enough to force a showdown.
Russia's foreign minister met in Moscow, say the papers, with the Iraqi Deputy Premier and emerged to say that Russia has "a program" to resolve the UN showdown with Iraq that will allow weapons inspectors to return to their work there.
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.