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Russia has a European strategy, but Europe does not have one for Russia - unless you want to call "Let's not rile the Bear" a strategy. Nor is "Let's annoy him a little bit" the epitome of statecraft. The latest example is Georgia. In the wake of the Russian invasion this summer, the European Union froze talks about 
a new economic partnership. But on 
Nov. 14, that killer sanction was lifted 
after just 10 weeks when the E.U. and Russia embraced at a summit in Nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Russia Problem | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

...John McCain released several new ads over the weekend intended to rile up and appeal to the roughly 28% of Clinton backers who have told pollsters they are still undecided or plan to vote for McCain this fall. One titled "Passed Over" implies that his Democratic opponent didn't choose Clinton to be his running mate because he couldn't handle her "truth"-telling, while another features a "proud Hillary Clinton Democrat" declaring her intention to support McCain in the fall. Rumors of intraparty strife reached such a fever pitch Monday morning, including talk that Bill Clinton was upset about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How United Are the Democrats? | 8/25/2008 | See Source »

...will find nothing but error. Lincoln, who believed the black man the inferior of the white, prosecuted and won a war to free him nevertheless. And Twain, raised in a slave state, briefly a member of a Confederate militia, and inventor of Jim, may have done more to rile the nation over racial injustice and rouse its collective conscience than any other novelist in the past century who has lifted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Past Black and White | 7/3/2008 | See Source »

...list that was heavy s___." The broader context will come out during the trial, and the defense attorneys are combing through the transcripts. "I get more confident the more stuff I read," says Troy Archie, attorney for Eljvir. "To me, it looks like they're using informants to rile these guys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fort Dix Conspiracy | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...feeling is that things are going pretty well in Cambridge right now,” Maher said. “It usually takes something to really rile people...

Author: By Sarah J. Howland, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cambridge Takes to the Polls | 11/6/2007 | See Source »

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