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...death as a ransom, the payee was not God but the devil, who some felt had legitimate claim on humanity because of Adam's fall. But others preferred another scenario: to see the Crucifixion and Jesus' subsequent descent into what they called Hades as a kind of divine bait-and-switch scheme, whereby the devil thought he had claimed a particularly virtuous human victim only to discover he had allowed into his sanctum the power that would eventually wrest humanity back from his grasp. St. Augustine likened the devil to a mouse, the Cross to a mousetrap and Christ...
...candy adventures to eat popcorn by. It’s a miracle that America’s film critics aren’t so battered by high-decibel Bruckheimer clones by summer’s end that they lose all objectivity and shower kisses on the dumb, earnest Oscar bait of early fall...
...camp blessing know they are bait. They dangle far from the formidable, heavily fortified perimeters of other U.S. bases in Afghanistan. Instead of the hundreds or thousands of troops that are in the large encampments, there are only a dozen Green Berets from what is known as Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA) 936 and a smattering of Marines. But they are dangling far from safety to attract a big catch. "This is Osama bin Laden's backyard," says the team sergeant. "And part of the solution to tracking him is having guys like us out here in isolated areas...
...former bosses but faces bone-crushing competition from Verizon and others entering the long-distance market. There probably isn't enough business for all three dedicated long-distance firms: AT&T, Sprint and MCI. A spiffed-up MCI coming out of bankruptcy court could quickly become takeover bait. And that would end this corporate saga pretty much where it began. --By Daniel Kadlec. Reported by Dody Tsiantar and Barbara Kiviat/New York and Alice Jackson Baughn/Brookhaven
...usual, the year’s end is rich with prestige films that studios will cast out as juicy Oscar bait. One of my most cherished films, The Manchurian Candidate, is being remade with Denzel Washington and Meryl Streep on board. Though remakes of classic films are only occasionally successful, this pedigree will guarantee at least a vastly entertaining mess (I can hear those Gus Van Sant Psycho violins...