Word: ambusher
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...White House leaked the documents pre-emptively last week to deprive Senate Republicans of an ambush at Herman's hearings. White House special counsel Lanny Davis admitted that some portions were produced in Herman's office, either on government time or on government equipment, but added that the Clinton-Gore campaign had recently reimbursed taxpayers for the cost. Davis could not say whether Herman had seen the documents, much less okayed them, before they were forwarded to Ickes last February...
Apparently the hunters who use bait to lure game into an ambush don't know the definition of hunting. It is the pursuit of game; the bears are not supposed to come to the hunters. If the "long hours and exhausting effort" required are too much for these mighty woodsmen, they should take themselves to a shooting gallery--although the targets are rather small. MARY KRESIN New York City...
Reformers are taking particular aim at baiting--using food to lure game into an ambush. With black bears, the bait station is typically set deep in the woods; fruit, pastry and livestock carcasses are placed in a large barrel or piled on the ground. Defenders of baiting point to the long hours and exhausting effort it takes to stalk and kill a bear. But critics like Colorado bear biologist Tom Beck ask, "How fulfilling is it to shoot a bear with its head in a barrel of jelly-filled doughnuts...
...State but failed to win full independence for his country and acquiesced in the partition between the Protestant North and the Catholic South. This flawed agreement, which Collins persuasively argued was the best attainable at the time, led first to civil war, then to his own death in an ambush and, finally, to the bloody, endless tragedy that is modern Irish history...
...archbishop did not fear death, even with murder all around him in bloody Burundi. Stories had been whispered about Joachim Ruhuna. One told of how during an ambush by thugs intent on killing him, he calmly asked for a moment to make his peace with God--a fearless request that virtually disarmed them, allowing him to go free. Though he had enemies on all sides, he regularly traveled without escort in a country where the two tribes are hell-bent on destroying each other, where more than 150,000 people have been killed since 1993, where in July the last...