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...committee will likely be where the stars come out. Governmental Affairs is the headliner, the Watergate committee, and the trio of Lieberman, Levin and Thompson - who has already made a declaration of sorts by urging the White House to "get the information out" about Enron contacts - should make for ripe daytime-cable viewing all spring. But while Lieberman must be pleased to know Ken Lay's schedule is now officially cleared, he doesn't have any big guests booked yet, and will kick of the 2002 hearings season relegated to obscurity on CSPAN3...
...Thank you, Mr. President. We get the point. Despite the obviously conflicting advice coming from various staffers on this sensitive topic - and your well-considered decision to avoid the issue altogether during your presidential campaign - you've decided the time is ripe to establish yourself as the anti-abortion President. Wait, now, let me think? ah, yes. We remember you: You're the guy who spent his time in the Texas governor's mansion vowing to end legal abortion. You'll have to forgive us for not remembering your deep-seated passion for the topic; after all, it has been...
...agent. Jordan will play one more year, the last last hurrah. But the Wizards have progressed so far that perhaps they will shop for a trade this year that will get them deeper into the play-offs. The Atlantic Division, where the Wiz play most of their games, is ripe for the picking--longtime powers like the Knicks and the Heat are a mess...
Richard Reid, the 28-year-old Anglo-Jamaican who on Dec. 22 tried to blow up an American Airlines plane by igniting explosives in his sneakers, was ripe for recruitment. He converted to Islam in 1995 while serving time for petty theft. Unlike Moussaoui, though, he was not a committed hard-liner when he arrived at the Brixton Mosque the following year. Over time the amiable, eager-to-learn Reid become more extremist and argumentative. He was not seen for a while, according to mosque chairman Abdul Haqq Baker, and when he returned he wore military fatigues and talked about...
...U.S.S. Cole. The limp and feckless American reaction to these acts of war--a token cruise missile here, a showy indictment there, empty threats everywhere--only reinforced the radical Islamic conviction that America was a paper tiger, fat and decadent, leader of a civilization grown weak and cowardly and ripe for defeat...