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...passed a few Mormon missionaries on the street today. I could see that they knew I was on the rebound, that I’m weak, I’m ripe. It’s going to be hard, John, it’s going to be hard...
...Congress, it turns out. Creating another election ripe for dispute was hardly the intent when our elected legislators passed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) in 2002, earmarking some $4 billion to streamline voting standards and allow states to modernize their voting systems. Although they passed the act, Congress and the White House were slow, perhaps recklessly so, in setting up the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to implement it. So while states helped themselves to funding for new voting machines, the EAC developed no national standards for using them. Likewise, HAVA mandated provisional voting so that nobody would be refused...
...Democrats say that election rules should encourage as many people to vote as possible. While that?s true, it ignores the fact that many voter rolls are not the streamlined, correct lists they should be. They have proved ripe for abuse...
...down with it. The timing could not have been worse for Merck, whose sales last year grew a paltry 5%, compared with 23% in 2000, and whose big anticholesterol drug Zocor will lose patent protection in 2006, with nothing to replace it. Some analysts wondered whether the company was ripe for a merger--an idea Merck executives have steadfastly rejected. "Without a deal, Merck cannot grow," says Richard Evans, a senior analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. "In fact it may get smaller...
...shoulders of U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Though the report didn't single him out by name or call for his resignation, it concludes that a combination of too many prisoners and too few guards--as well as a confusing chain of command--generated a climate ripe for trouble that the Pentagon's leadership should have anticipated. In the report, Rumsfeld's own specially appointed panel, headed by former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, blames Rumsfeld's lean and haphazard deployment orders for overtaxing troops in Iraq. It points out that when the commander in charge of Abu Ghraib, Brigadier...