Word: dicey
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...unconventional idea carries risks. For a candidate who is working to escape an image of waffling and splitting hairs, it could be dicey to deprive his party's convention of the only real thing it does: confer the nomination. Though the conventions lost their last shred of suspense long ago, the candidate's acceptance speech is a high point, a chance to outline one's vision to a national TV audience and fuel the usual "convention bounce" in the polls. The TV networks, which have already reduced their coverage of the largely ceremonial gatherings, might cut back even more. Would...
After Niki Haab led off with a pinch-hit home run, Harvard head coach Jenny Allard elected to go to her senior ace Brotemarkle in the dicey situation, and her move proved quite sage...
...disarming the militias while violence flourishes will be a dicey proposition. The Shi'ites say they deserve the same dispensation to protect themselves as the Kurds. The Kurds feel they have had a tacit understanding, now acknowledged in the transition charter, that the peshmerga would be allowed to keep their arms. Even if others disagree, the Kurd militia does not plan to give up its weapons. "The peshmerga were on the right side of the fence" against Saddam and fought side by side with the Americans, says Qubad Talabani, son and aide to top Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani. "There...
...handle ?Big Thunder.? I am pleased that ?Splash Mountain? is still too much, and that Jack and Mary Grace are still too little to reach the 40 inches required for either ride, never mind ?Space Mountain.? Jack and Mary Grace loved ?Dumbo,? and I, an adult parent in a dicey world, want to freeze them in their ?Dumbo? age. It?s a nice, little, 1950s kind of ride, and it?s got a line around the block. That?s because there are a lot of Jacks and Mary Graces in the world, and a lot of other trepidatious parents...
...truth, Bremer's initial plan was always dicey. Here's why: Shi'ite Muslims make up a majority in Iraq (60%), although under Saddam--a Sunni--they never had the power their numbers warranted. The Governing Council too has a Shi'ite majority. In the summer Ayatullah Ali Hussein al-Sistani issued a fatwa saying that any body drafting a constitution had to be elected, not appointed by the council. Al-Sistani, though Iranian by birth, is the most senior Shi'ite religious leader in Iraq. There was no chance that the council would openly oppose his will, and--because...