The Vito Lopez controversy represents the first big test of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.
This controversy represents on a small scale a more general problem that faces those who support what they consider progress, environmental or otherwise.
The controversy represents yet another attempt by Smith to create some sort of scandal that would, to his mind at least, undermine the credibility of an entire branch of science.
It's now up to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which specializes in patent cases, to resolve whether each of the iPhone design patents at issue in this controversy represent the end product or are merely components.
For the people of Wilmington, the Ledges controversy has represented a distracting, unwelcome issue that they've felt compelled to take seriously.
While the bridge debate highlighted unspoken divisions, some analysts suspect that, in the Machiavellian world of Quebec politics, the controversy also represented payback time.
Not without controversy, lotteries represent a $70 billion industry in the U.S. alone.
Judging controversies aside, Salt Lake City represented at least an American renaissance for the Winter Games.
And, make no mistake, while Justice Stevens has sold books that address legal controversies, he has never represented any client that has benefitted from the public positions he has chosen to articulate.
That controversy very much represents the clash between the cultures of science and the law, and in light of that controversy it seems appropriate, indeed compelling, to put the phenomenon of unintentional seeding into a proper scientific perspective in this Review.
