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Every now and then the old spark I once felt will be rekindled like during the Yankees dramatic and victorious playoff series against the Red Sox last fall—although surely the opportunity to rub salt in the wounded egos of Sox fans had something to do with...
...cramped quarters and unclean water. The world, says Aylward, is like a forest, and one polio case can touch off a wildfire that may take years to put out. "We have gone several seasons without [a forest fire]," he says, "and the brush has gotten dryer and dryer. One spark, and it could explode anywhere...
...slavery. Jefferson's fight against the Alien and Sedition Acts is often placed in the context of free speech, but it had unintended consequences beyond that. The Kentucky Resolutions were among the first to defend states' rights, and Jefferson had even threatened secession. Similar ideas helped spark the Civil...
...Philippe Guez, a former official at Deutsche Bank who carried out the stock transactions for Vivendi. (The three others worked at Vivendi, including former Chief Financial Officer Guillaume Hannezo.) And there may be repercussions for the regulators themselves. The initial spark for the investigation was a complaint filed by small Vivendi shareholders. Frédérik-Karel Canoy, the lawyer for the group, tells Time that he has now filed a follow-up demand for a formal investigation of the cob's president and general manager, both of whom are still in office. The cob, since renamed the Financial...
...Saudi Arabia's rulers are watching events in Iraq with considerable trepidation. They opposed the invasion on the grounds that the resulting instability would imperil the region, and they fear that the current dynamic could break up Iraq into ethnic enclaves, an outcome that would spark new troubles throughout the region, not least in oil-rich eastern Saudi Arabia where secessionist voices among the Saudis Shiite minority would likely be amplified. Riyadh's best-case scenario had been to maintain a Sunni-dominated polity in post-Saddam Baghdad, but right now that looks unlikely. Iraq's future hangs...