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...linens: nabob of nesting, for example, and doyenne of domesticity. And she has earned a reputation for being too perfect, a control freak and an overachiever, who while still in grammar school organized all the neighborhood kids' birthday parties. With her image and life so open, she has become ripe for parody and criticism. She is the subject of a recent scathing, unauthorized biography, Just Desserts. Stewart says she finds the criticism boring: "It's sexist, jealous and stupid, and it all comes from one little area--journalism." Ouch...
...speaks of Timequake not so much as an opus unto itself, but as the final chapter in a body of work that spans three decades and eighteen books, all of them still in print. He notes that, unlike the many writers of his generation, he has lived to a ripe old age. "I got to look back," he crowed at the Brattle, "And I feel lucky as hell." In the course of "looking back" through the lens of Timequake, he covers a lot of familiar ground: his trademark anti-nuclear sentiments are very much in evidence, especially at the beginning...
EUROPE. Many pros believe the Continent is just a few years behind the U.S. in terms of corporate restructurings, cost cutting and providing executives with lucrative stock-option incentives. If they are right, the region is ripe for some strong market surges. Loretta Morris, manager of the Nicholas-Applegate Worldwide Growth Portfolio, is finding dozens of stocks to her liking, especially among export-driven companies benefiting from weakening currencies. Her favorite countries are Germany, the Netherlands and France. Favorite stocks include the French oil company Elf Aquitaine, Dutch electronics-giant Philips and German carmaker Volkswagen...
Yavlinsky replied that although a fair system might evolve in Russia in a few hundred years, the country is ripe for change...
...this adds up to a team that is looking forward to and is ripe for a break-through dominating victory...