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Usually it's the defensive-focused Wild lulling opponents and fans to ba href=/sleep/a/b by jamming the neutral zone and preventing attacks.

They almost got away with coach Jacques Lemaire's trademark strategy until Mikko Koivu's costly hooking penalty late in regulation.

The Seventh-place Canucks will need to repeat their disciplined approach tonight at General Motors Place (7 p.m., CKNW/Sportsnet).

On Wednesday, they were booked with only two minor penalties.

The Canucks' only third period citation was a 10-minute misconduct assessed to Alexandre Burrows in a post-game melee.

Don't expect to see Matt Cooke as the Canucks wind down the homestand.

He was concussed in a Monday night collision with Los Angeles King Dustin Brown and could be out for a week or more.

Canucks visit Teemu Selanne, Scott Niedermayer and the rest of Brian Burke's surging Mighty Ducks of Anaheim Sunday at 1 p.m.

Pacific Daylight Time in the Arrowhead Pond (CKNW/pay-per-view).

It'll be a must-win game for both squads.

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Under the first President Bush, the helicopter flew from Safwan, in southern Iraq, with Gen.

Norman Schwarzkopf aboard, leaving behind Saddam Hussein’s generals, who could not believe...

they had been allowed (to) live to fight their domestic foes, and America, another day.

Bill Clinton’s helicopter was a Black Hawk, downed in Mogadishu....

“According to this theory, President George W.

Bush is an ‘aberration,’ a leader out of sync with his nation’s character and no more than a brief nightmare...” Mr.

Abbasi is anxiously waiting for that “last helicopter” to leave Iraq, so that he and his ilk can fill the vacuum.

I’m hoping and praying Mr.

Bush will keep sticking it out, and that his successor will exhibit equal resolve, but greater effectiveness.

This nation’s great tragedy is that far too many Americans agree so strongly with Mr.

Abbasi that the president is a “nightmare” that they, too, long to see that “last helicopter” take off, because they badly want to see Mr.

Bush fail.

Hate the president if you insist.

I wouldn’t recommend it — since he’s the only president we’ve got, you’re much more likely to influence policy by constituting a rational, loyal opposition than by foaming at the mouth.

But that’s between you and him.

I beg you, though: However you feel about the president, please love your country enough to support its crucial missio...

...ba href=/sleep/a/b worrying whether North Carolina's lottery will affect his business."We have cheaper fuel, cheaper cigarettes and the lottery," Shannon said.

"If one thing doesn't bring them in, the other will.

And when they buy fuel or cigarettes, chances are they're buying a lottery ticket, too."The lottery is big business at Wilco, which sells about $6,500 daily in Powerball tickets and $2,500 in scratch-offs."They're coming in wanting to win big," Shannon said.

"Scratch-offs are more of an instant gratification, but the big money is in Powerball."Maria Jordan of Gastonia, N.C, will still make the 20-minute drive to Blacksburg to get her lottery tickets, at least until May."This is where the money's at," Jordan said.

"Forget scratch-offs.

The money's here, and it's worth the drive."Just across the line in Kings Mountain, N.C., Lewis Moore bought his first scratch-off tickets in his hometown."Usually, I go down the road to Fairfield, so it's good not having to go so far," said Moore, who's retired.Moore said he's never played Powerball, but said he will when the game comes to North Carolina."When the money stays in your state, it makes a difference," he said.

"I like to know that the money I spend here, stays here."The South Carolina Education Lottery took in $960 million last year, $280 million going directly into education, lottery spokeswoman Tara Robertson said.About 12 percent of lottery players in South Carolina are from North Carolina, translating into $45 million in losses if ...