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...aerospace and defense industries. It will be very expensive, with a low probability of success and very little real scientific value. The same goes for the International Space Station and the Star Wars missile-defense program. It's time we demand real results and use common sense to control reckless, wasteful, political-payoff spending. Truman Hunter Oxford...
KERRY: Well, what do you think is the harshest thing I've said? I mean, what's harsh about a reckless, arrogant, ideological foreign policy? That adequately describes it. It's reckless not to talk to North Korea. It's reckless to leave AIDS floundering for several years. It's reckless not to contain nuclear material in Russia. That's a very direct word for it. I like him very much personally. He's a very engaging, very personable, very good guy. People enjoy his company. He's an enjoyable person. I just disagree with him in terms...
...Adams deprived of its instrument of exclusivity—nor, frankly, is Kirkland’s housing-lottery superiority complex particularly palatable. But there are right ways to deal with problems among the Houses, and Mather has very clearly picked the wrong way. This reckless, unjustified round of attacks cannot stand...
...that moment Peter Jennings referred to when he asked Clark during Thursday's televised debate whether he agreed with Moore's "reckless charge" about President Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard. This posed an interesting test for the general, who pundits say has three things going for him: resume, resume and resume. But Jennings' question revealed the kind of experience Clark doesn't have and can't fake: the ability to deflect or diffuse a question that is bound to hurt you with someone, no matter how you answer it. Clark responded that he didn't know...
...mother's reckless ruse has ominous consequences. Everyone notices that this Osama is different--"like a nymph," one man says. After landing a menial job, the girl is taken to the men-only prayer ritual, where each lad is instructed in the proper washing of the male genitals. Her deceit is discovered when she has her first menstrual period, and she is married off to an old mullah...