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...that it might really be taken away, members - after lining up loudly behind McCain to a man in years past - are scattering. Louisianan John Breaux has already sided with Hagel. Bob Torricelli is making similar noises. More will follow when it comes time to fish or cut bait...
...hidden agenda of converting Jews to Christianity. The critics' idea seems to be that Jews will be attracted by Old Testament aspects of the Holy Land Experience and then will get seduced by New Testament aspects. This seems to be Rosenthal's idea too, though he denies it. Holy bait-and-switch, Batman...
...take one. Once you have dealt with your kid's actions in a no-nonsense way, it is time to move on, but often children don't realize it. They will sometimes attempt to provoke their parents, just to keep their attention. A parent should not rise to the bait. "My wife and I had this thing we did with our kids when they were trying to provoke us," he says. "We'd just look at them calmly and say, 'Goodbye,' and then go about our business...
...Mason Verger (Gary Oldman), who years earlier peeled off his own face while under the spell of Lecter. Verger plans to capture Lecter and feed him to a herd of vicious swine. Verger will use Clarice Starling, the FBI agent who has a mysterious bond with the fugitive, as bait. Lecter is up to his usual tricks: shopping, disemboweling, forcing a victim to eat his own brains, that kind of thing. Finally, in the novel Clarice apparently becomes a cannibal herself. Don't worry: we haven't given away the ending of the film; screenwriters David Mamet (State and Main...
...many as 25,000 would-be inventors each year take the bait, and, quicker than you can say "rags to riches," find themselves caught in a very different kind of mousetrap. Consumer advocates, government regulators and industry experts say that virtually everyone who contacts these firms with dreams of riches will in fact end up poorer. The vast majority of these invention-promotion companies, the experts charge, are nothing but massive scams aimed at often naive and sometimes desperate backyard tinkerers, many of whom have more hope than business acumen. Even the companies that operate within the law rarely provide...