Word: baits
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...Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, speaking from Israel, accused the press of creating tension that didn't exist between the U.S. and Israel. Diplomatic guests were invited to concede that the maneuvers were all "phony talk" and charades. The day the hostages' release was announced, ABC's Sam Donaldson tried to bait former Undersecretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger: "The terrorists won, right?" Many viewers must have cheered those guests who stood their ground...
...Thaksin hasn't taken the bait. While the violence continued last week with a spate of bombings and shootings that left four people dead, the Prime Minister ruled out the idea of retaliating with force against the insurgents. At the same time he ordered a dramatic increase in security at the nation's airports, embassies, and major commercial and tourist centers. Last week, hundreds of checkpoints and surveillance cameras were set up across Bangkok, including on Khao San Road, a tourist strip popular with backpackers. "We must remain vigilant," says one senior military intelligence official. "[The militants now] have...
...Communications Daily in Washington, by night publishes an electronic broadsheet called CyberWire Dispatch, in which he tells readers what he thinks is really going on. Last April he investigated an Internet advertisement offering $500 or more just for receiving junk E-mail and uncovered what he called a bait-and-switch scheme operated by "a slick direct-mail baron" in Ohio. He wrote a story headlined JACKING IN FROM THE P.T. BARNUM PORT and dispatched it to the Net. He was promptly sued for libel. Whatever the truth of the story -- or the merit of the suit -- Meeks now faces...
...Bait Shop, hot lesbians serving juice cocktails
...Crimson players took the bait...