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...days in the aquarium are coming to an end. Soon, there won't be glass walls anymore. After four years in here, I can see many baits on hooks--energetic fishermen trying to take me back to the vast ocean where I once swam. The only question now is which bait to bite...
These include using a bait and switch tactic whereby they lure students in with high-profile faculty and then allow students to graduate "without seeing the world-famous professors or tasting genuine research...
...Matthew fewer than 50 lines to deal with Jesus' 40 days in the wilderness, about double the length of the following un-King Jamesian summary: the newly baptized Galilean retreats to the Judean desert where he is mocked and enticed by the devil; Jesus does not take the bait; he won't turn stones into bread because man does not live by bread alone; he won't jump from the temple tower to prove his divinity because it is forbidden to presume God's protection; finally, he rejects the Faustian bargain--the world's riches for his soul...
...story that attracted the attention of the FBI is being told by Caryn Mann. She was once the live-in girlfriend of Parker Dozhier, a friend of Hale's who operates a bait-and-tackle shop at a Hot Springs, Ark., fishing compound, where Hale was an occasional guest in Dozhier's cabin. Both Mann and her son Joshua Rand, 17, say Dozhier regularly received money from Boynton and David Henderson, a Scaife associate and Spectator vice president. She says Dozhier gave some of the money to Hale. Dozhier and Spectator editor Tyrrell admit that Dozhier...
...Drew Golden a shotgun when he was six. The home video of Drew as a tot, rushing to the backyard shooting range, has been played again and again, serving as metaphor and explanation, the macho little-boy equivalent of the dolled-up kindergarten beauty queen. Frontiersboy Drew learned to bait hooks and scope out prey with his father and grandfather, developing a taste for the chili cooked up after a successful deer hunt. He had a keen eye, improving his marksmanship at a shooting range and his reflexes at the video consoles of Wal-Mart and the local bowling alley...