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Social critic Barbara Ehrenreich has written about living as a low-wage worker (Nickel and Dimed) and looking for a white-collar job (Bait and Switch). She spoke recently with TIME's Jeremy Caplan about her new book, This Land is Your Land: Reports from a Divided Nation, a collection of emotionally charged essays...
...consumer might be excused for feeling victimized by the old bait and switch, since promotional material for the book hints broadly at the romantic revelations ("Here, too, are her relationships with men - in and out of her marriages - and with her friends, co-workers and rivals," reads the Alfred A. Knopf catalog copy); the Brooke affair was the chief headline of virtually every gossip column item on the book; and Walters herself talked about it freely on shows like Oprah...
Seven months after Sergeant Christopher LeJeune started scouting Baghdad's dangerous roads - acting as bait to lure insurgents into the open so his Army unit could kill them - he found himself growing increasingly despondent. "We'd been doing some heavy missions, and things were starting to bother me," LeJeune says. His unit had been protecting Iraqi police stations targeted by rocket-propelled grenades, hunting down mortars hidden in dark Baghdad basements and cleaning up its own messes. He recalls the order his unit got after a nighttime firefight to roll back out and collect the enemy dead. When LeJeune...
...Even fund raising, once the realm of the richest in politics, became a grassroots organizational tool. At nearly every event this year, Team Obama set up little tabletop trinket shops, known as "chum stores" because all those little Obama-branded doodads aren't only keepsakes; they are also bait. Every person who buys a button or hat is recorded as a campaign donor. But the real goal of the chum operations was building a list of workers, supporters and their e-mail addresses...
...Mattison also complained of what he described as a “bait and switch” on the part of the University. Harvard’s original proposal, which entailed reusing existing commercial buildings for interim storage, was later changed to the proposal for a permanent museum space on Barry’s Corner, which Mattison and his fellow residents discovered upon reading The Boston Globe the day after meeting with Harvard planners...