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...calendar and the accompanying article represent a new low in the paper's history," Reeves wrote. "The reporting was rife with inaccuracies and international misstatements of fact--inaccuracies of which the editor and writer were perfectly aware...
...word. No other slang expression approaches it in its variety of permutation, application, hyphenation and intensification (e.g., unf -- -- -- ingbelievable). In its earliest recorded use (late 15th century), this word was possibly already taboo, says Lighter, who found it in a rhyming couplet written in cipher. The dictionary is rife with other synonyms for copulation; some are splendidly ingenious (for example, to have one's greens); most, however, are unprintable...
...defense of life's greatest losers when he pronounced that "I shall no longer tinker with the machinery of death." In a society where those who cannot buy high-priced lawyers are disproportionately executed, he wrote that "whether a human being should live or die is so ... rife with all of life's understanding, experiences, prejudices and passions -- that it inevitably defies the rationality and consistency required by the Constitution...
...collect the cash. On a computer or telephone network, it's not easy to verify that the person whose name is on a credit card is the one who is using it to buy a new stereo system -- which is one of the reasons catalog sales are * rife with fraud. But if an order confirmation encoded with someone's public key can be decoded by his or her private key -- and only his or her private key -- that confirmation becomes like an unforgeable digital signature...
...movie is rife with other booboos and inconsistencies. For example, halfway through the movie, Emma's best friend Candice (Laurie Metcalf) asks her how sex is for a blind person. If these women are as groovy and open as they seem, the subject would have come up years before the time we meet them. More seriously, one of Emma's flashback images is that of her own bloodied face at the age of eight after she has been blinded--so how does she know how she looked after the accident? Also, Emma's lonely apartment is filled with richly colored...