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...Hudson stage, however, the protagonists were engaged not so much in truth seeking as in attempted murder. Kasparov, who calls Karpov "a creature of darkness," had declared his intent not just to defeat Karpov but to destroy him. Accordingly, Kasparov played the opening games with the confident, reckless belligerence of a young Ali. Karpov, though, was fully Frazier's equal. The result was mayhem rarely seen at that level of play. It was like a title fight with 10 knockdowns by Round 3 or, for the more delicate, like a ballet performed not on a stage but on a trampoline...
Rallying Republicans in Oklahoma City, Bush blamed the Democrat-controlled Congress for dragging the economy to the edge of recession. He snarled that Congress had "turned its back on our police officers." Later he boasted that Republicans had "held the line against reckless cuts of our armed forces" sought by Democrats, adding that "we owe that much to our men and women in the Persian Gulf...
...from the fact that they choose to engage in sodomy, which greatly increases their chance of getting AIDS through sexual contact. Punishing Helms by death would not bring their loved ones back, but it certainly would lead to the cessation of this radical organization's further expressing its reckless opinions. Michael P. Cole...
...kinds of behavior during pregnancy. What about drinking? Smoking? Taking prescription drugs? Or working too hard? "Are we going to be policing people's wine closets?" asks Stanford University law-school professor Deborah Rhode. Other legal scholars insist that such "slippery slope" arguments are exaggerated; laws commonly distinguish between reckless behavior and acceptable risk...
...Brown has nothing to lose," Harvard Coach Sue Caples said. "They can go in there with reckless abandon...