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...history, the "wolfcriers" turn. In the most extreme cases, reactionaries have claimed that Russia is undergoing the Weimar syndrome. The Russian republic, according to this line of thinking, is a politically-inexperienced, fledgling democracy ripe for a takeover in much the same way as Weimar Germany in the 1930s...
...good thing that the U.S. team includes a cast of caricatures, I mean characters, who are a publicist's dream. From Alexi Lalas, whose face could launch a thousand insane asylums, to slick Tony Meola, who wants to be an actor in his next career, the team is ripe for fan interest. They're not particularly fast, or experienced or graceful, but they have performed credibly so far. It goes without saying that they've also made it into their share of promotional campaigns. It's fitting that these athletes, who have devoted as much of their lives to sport...
...another way Clinton is fortunate: it might be said, and not entirely facetiously, that the time is ripe for an ineffective foreign policy. The U.S. is more secure from attack than it has been in decades, and its margin for error is vastly greater than it was in the days when thousands of Soviet and American nuclear warheads were ready to be fired within minutes. At the same time, though, framing a coherent policy is much more difficult than when every problem could be viewed in the organizing framework of the cold war. And in foreign policy, as in other...
Harvard Police Chief Paul E. Johnson and Rooney say the city provides ripe pickings for those seeking to steal two-wheelers...
Among the issues that may face future Justices, many conservatives argue that the "takings" clause of the Fifth Amendment is ripe for swift attention to protect property owners from such government restraints as zoning laws and environmental regulations that reduce the value of their property without compensation. The information highway promises multiple collisions between intellectual-property rights and the free-expression rights of those who would use the data they find there. And the potential of genetic testing to detect a predisposition to illness or undesirable behavior will challenge the privacy rights of all Americans. Any of those issues could...