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Pyrrhic Victory. Most other Australians still detest the dingo. They have spent about $330 million since the turn of the century to eradicate the animal. They hunt the wild dogs from planes, bait sheep carcasses with poison, pay a bounty of as much as $13 per dingo scalp. They have even built-and maintain-a 5,402-mile-long wire-mesh fence that zigzags across most of the island continent, protecting the nation's 148 million sheep from the predatory dingo. Even so, says Brian Neill, supervisor of the New South Wales Wild Dog Destruction Board...
...they can manage if he cares to make a despairing run for his life. It is an offer he cannot refuse in the circumstances. Ventura's run-which includes trying to capture a Russian spy (who is also a well-known symphonic conductor), whom the fugitive needs as bait for a deal with his former masters-forms the substance of a movie that is at once deft and thoughtprovoking...
...save the money. No one is really impressed by Harvard's yearbook and you can always use your roommate's or your neighbor's freshman register. At least wait until you're here in Cambridge and you can do some investigation of your own before jumping for the bait all the groups dangle...
...news broadcasts. The stock market rallied again, with the Dow Jones industrials rising almost 24 points. Crowds gathered along the fences surrounding the White House; mostly somber and curious, they had the quiet air of a death watch. In the House of Representatives, the gravelly voice of William ("Fish Bait") Miller startled the occupants of that chamber. "Mr. Speaker, a message from the President of the United States," he announced. In the stillness, a clerk read the anticlimactic title: a presidential report on "Government Services to Rural America...
Sample Distortion No. 2: Early in "We" Shapiro quotes me claiming I was ahead of my time, that I originated student activism, and so on: that is he makes me sound like a real jerk. This is the "communists are megelomaniacs" bait. However a little later on, Shapiro does a complete flip-flop and, as if he'd never hinted I was so self-centered, says: "Jared strongly dislikes talking about himself." Shapiro then goes on to attack me for this, saying I've dissolved my personality into the party, that I give "we" answers to "me" questions...