Cropping from 16x9 to 4x3, possible in FCE4?

I look and look but can't seem to find the place in the manual that talks about this.. can I crop an HD wide video to 4 by 3 dimensions, taking the middle of the image like they do when they bring movies down to TV size?
I have some productions under way that will be viewed on a regular TV and I'd like my existing HD shots to fill the screen, so I want to crop to the center and change aspect ratio... can I do this?

Put the edited HD material into a DV sequence. It will automatically scale down so it's letterboxed. If you want it center cut, scale the nested sequence back up so it's cut off left and right, put fills the screen top to bottom.

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