Williams says he is strongly drawn to this late "romance", with its themes of reconciliation and renewal explored by a writer who, he observes, was intimately acquainted with conflict and jeopardy.
The Israel-Lebanon conflict places in jeopardy Lebanon's fragile political stability and the already slender prospects of economic recovery.
Yet putting him in the dock again conflicts with the "double jeopardy" principle that nobody should be tried twice for the same crime.
Watson's differences with human players had generated conflicts between IBM and Jeopardy! staff during the planning of the competition.
And we don't want the opportunity of getting what we want to be put in jeopardy by conflicting desires and interests.
Stephen Baker, a journalist who recorded Watson's development in his book "Final Jeopardy", reported that the conflict between IBM and Jeopardy! became so serious in May 2010 that the competition was almost canceled.
Casamance has since experienced years of conflict which put local initiatives in jeopardy, such as nature reserves and the first network of villages.
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Until the second announcement, it seemed that instead of ending a 52-year conflict, the summit might have put in jeopardy the whole notion of Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking itself.
