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...killing the volleyball are recent discoveries, Glootz developed a love for music at a young age. He admits that the piano is his primary instrument, but he took his love of the accordion to a high level, winning a U-17 national title in the instrument at a ripe...
...half of its tactical nuclear weapons stationed in Europe between 2000 and 2009 without any reciprocal action required of Russia. The U.S. also voluntarily reduced its deployed strategic weapons below a 2002 treaty limit 3½ years before it was required to do so. "There are plenty of other ripe apples to pluck," he says. "The U.S. could probably go to 500 weapons tomorrow without any negative consequences for U.S. national security or that of its allies...
...early view of Graves' ability to play both a hero type and its own internal contradiction. Throughout the '50s he alternated supporting parts in big films (The Night of the Hunter, The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell) with leads in It Conquered the World and other sci-fi anticlassics ripe for later mockery on Mystery Science Theater...
...soda water over beer—and the plot seems to percolate with conflict. Compounding the rural-urban clash, Robert is soon sexually propositioned by a married woman, Ingelise (Lene Maria Christensen), who claims that her husband, Jorgen (Kim Bodnia), beats her. What ensues is a love-triangle ripe with violence and unexpected twists. As Robert learns to adapt to his surroundings and situation, he eventually finds himself inextricably mired in the more figurative bog of Skarrild’s crime, revenge, and complicity...
...forces: bureaucratic inertia and a willingness to take only those decisions that are deemed low-risk within Iran's internal political context. That does not include compromise with Washington and the International Atomic Energy Agency on the nuclear issue. From the Iran-Contra scandal onwards, Iran's history is ripe with examples of Iranian politicians losing their careers after trying to create an opening to the U.S. Iran's opposing political factions fear that rivals would reap the political benefits of an end to the U.S.-Iran enmity. From the standpoint of those in the regime, the low-risk course...