After the president gave his brink-of-war press conference on March 6 ("This is the last phase of diplomacy... ..), the P-I editorial board took a communal deep breath and announced themselves unpersuaded by Bush's case.
Brett, nearly at his psychological brink, was relieved.
The actor Mason Adams, who played the managing editor, Charlie Hume, for five years on the "Lou Grant" television show, based his portrayal partly on Mr. Brink, his neighbor in Westport, Conn.
Despite his iconoclastic tendencies, Brink says he didn't fully question his own churchgoing until he was 24 and doing postgraduate work at the Sorbonne in Paris.
The only way to pull Yang back from the brink, his family decided, was for him to remarry as quickly as possible.
The long trial-and-error evolution of the "Blue Nudes" brought one pin-wielding assistant to, in his words, "the brink of collapse".
His return from the brink of death inspired his friends, just as their sacrifices had inspired him and convinced him of humankind's basic nobility.
It is hard to believe Vettel stands on the brink of his 100th race, his debut just five years ago in the US when he stood in for Robert Kubica in Indianapolis following the Pole's horrific smash a week previously in Canada.
The script of the final then seemed to be written for Clarke, who walked to the crease at a time when his team could have wobbled, but drove and cut his way to 74 in his final ODI innings, leading his team to the brink of glory.
David Frum, the onetime Bush speechwriter, laments in his provocative new book "Comeback" that by 2008 his former boss "had led his party to the brink of disaster" and cost it "a generation of young Americans".
