Word: ripley
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...doesn't sound like a graduate-level seminar. During WW II, F.D.R. asked citizens for help and was inundated with suggestions--from the "Liberty War" to "Rat Killing." Finally, he accepted that the conflict was, undeniably, another world war. Someday we may have to do the same. --By Amanda Ripley...
...waiting to question him. But it turned out that an FBI agent in Sacramento had placed his name on the list. His name was removed, and he was allowed to fly--into the hands of waiting FBI agents. --By Brian Bennett, Sally B. Donnelly and Amanda Ripley...
...because of the military's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy toward homosexuals? If that's what the fall has in store, then maybe there's no choice but to bring on the long, hot summer. --Reported by Perry Bacon Jr., Massimo Calabresi, Matthew Cooper, Viveca Novak, Amanda Ripley and Mark Thompson/ Washington and Cathy Booth Thomas/ Dallas
...violation of the Controlled Substances Act, a claim rejected by the lower courts. The Justices ruled in 1997 that state laws banning assisted suicide are constitutional. Still, given how much ambivalence they expressed in that case, this one is anything but open and shut. --Reported by Viveca Novak, Amanda Ripley and Eric Roston/Washington
...upon crops now boast small plants that make products such as shoes, radios and billiard balls. Free markets enliven every town's main street, attracting peddlers from all around who bring their wares by bicycle. (What can be tied up and carried on two wheels would have amazed even Ripley: live pigs and goats and 20-ft.-long bamboo poles...