Word: rife
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Russia democracy is just a façade, its media is co-opted on a daily basis, and its military campaign in Chechnya is rife with human right abuses. But despite Litvinenko’s letter, which openly blamed Putin, and a Kremlin’s defensive response—“The allegations are nothing but nonsense”— this plot seems far too linear. We need to criticize Russia for the more important reasons, without going bonkers about a dead spy before we have more evidence...
...have the offensive game he is capable of, but he stayed within the game. He didn’t force anything and that was a big plus for confidence for everybody. When things weren’t going well, it could have been ‘rife-shot Jimmy.’ He didn’t do that.”Housman then beat the Lehigh press and scored on a layup, making it an eight-point game.The Mountain Hawks would cut the Crimson lead back to six on two more occasions, the latest with 52 seconds left...
...Vermont and Albany later in the season. Maine will prove to be an early challenge to the Crimson’s commitment to improvement on perimeter defense. Last year, Harvard ranked seventh in the Ivy League in three-point field goal percentage defense, a critical shortcoming in a league rife with outside shooters. Maine is led by Kevin Reed, who returns to the team after being medically redshirted last season. Reed has over 1,000 points and 500 career rebounds, and is the Black Bears’ all-time leader in three-point makes, a record...
...shadowy stubble grow him? The British weekly New Scientist has touched on this, exploring what is known as nominative determinism--the common case of people whose names echo their jobs. There is the director of penal reform Frances Crook, the marine biologist Steven Haddock. American culture has been rife with such synchronicity--pitcher Rollie Fingers, Senator George McGovern. "Are these whimsicalities of chance," Carl Jung once asked, "or the suggestive effects of the name...
...anger has been stoked by rumors, currently rife in Baghdad's political circles, that the U.S. is seeking to replace the Shi'ite-led government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki with a more secular leadership, perhaps including some elements of Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath party. Unsurprisngly, relations between al-Maliki and the U.S. have turned distinctly prickly. Sources tell TIME that the Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the supreme religious figure in Iraqi Shi'ism, has been alarmed by these rumors and asked al-Maliki about them when the Prime Minister visited the cleric in Najaf last month...