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...recent memory who did such an about-face after getting elected," Senator Hillary Clinton tells TIME. All that compassionate-conservative talk, many Democrats decided, was just for show. He promised to restore trust to the office but even lied about that. "I can only conclude that he's a bait-and-switch politician," says Senator Clinton. "He campaigns on unity and changing the tone, and he has absolutely no intention of following through on any of that...
...interview than Mark Thompson's "10 Questions for Tommy Franks" [Aug. 9]. Every question was a not so thinly veiled swipe at the war in Iraq and the Bush Administration, obviously designed to get Franks to agree with Thompson's views. I am thankful Franks didn't take the bait. CHRISTOPHER J. RODEL Sun Prairie...
...than Mark Thompson's "10 Questions for Tommy Franks" [Aug. 9]. Every question was a not-so-thinly veiled swipe at the war in Iraq and the Bush Administration, obviously designed to get Franks to agree with Thompson's views. I am thankful General Franks did not take the bait. Christopher J. Rodel Sun Prairie, Wisconsin...
...label. At a Times Square movie palace last week, patrons who shelled out $10 each to see a new Tom Cruise movie, only to get David Hasselhoff as the star instead, angrily rushed the box office to demand full refunds. The studio admitted saving millions with the celluloid bait-and-switch but denied shortchanging customers. "Hey, guy," noted a senior executive, "Tom and Dave are both adult male Americans with all their limbs and faculties intact. Both of 'em can talk and kiss and land a punch, am I right? Let's not split hairs!" And, he pointed...
...bear-to-look. Go on, take a stroll in the woods (in Shyamalan's The Village) when you've been told that monsters lurk there. Or a dip in the ocean (in the low-budget thriller Open Water) when you're left stranded as shark bait. Try to wash out that feeling of dread by shampooing your hair (in the Japanese spookathon Ju-on: The Grudge). You begin to rub in the shampoo--and for a moment you feel a third hand, corpse cold, massaging your scalp...