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...Kurds had laid out bait for their prey. In early January, Kurdish security officials spread word in the villages along Iraq's border with Iran that one stretch of the mountainous frontier was lightly guarded and thus safe for travelers who had reason to slip unnoticed in or out of the country. Then the Kurds waited. "It was like dropping seeds for a chicken, saying 'Come, come,' and then catching it," a Kurdish official involved in the sting told TIME. It was a crisp morning in mid-January when the chicken fell into the trap...
Latham Mark II is not taking the bait. He is off the angry pills. Before the cameras, Latham now reflexively refers to the Conservative leader as Mr. Howard. He speaks in a controlled way about his opponents and does not show annoyance with persistent questioning or hectoring. When it comes to his own party, Latham does not travel with the baggage of being an insider or power broker - or as a front for other interests. How much will the party be prepared to bend to Latham's command? That will depend - as it did for Whitlam and Bob Hawke...
...likely; if you look at this year’s Best Picture nominees, they’re mostly drawn from the same old strain of Oscar bait: there are gritty epics (The Return of the King and Master and Commander), lacquered period pieces (Seabiscuit), and scenery-chewing dramas (Mystic River). The Academy’s voting deadline may have changed, but their tastes have stayed the same...
...which requested that it not be named) scanned file-trading networks 24 hours a day. It can fire off letters warning Internet service providers about misbehaving users, but its main weapon is the decoy file, which it dispatched by the tens of thousands. Downloaders spent hours pulling down the bait, only to find a mess of ones and zeros. Bored wannabe pirates added to the mass distraction, posting bogus files to get attention and create havoc. The week before the film's release, TIME staffers found online Samurais that turned out to be Scary Movie 3, Santa Clause...
...black culture, calling him "the rap Hitler, the culture stealer." At the same time, The Source published an essay titled "The Unbearable Whiteness of Emceeing: What the Eminence of Eminem Says About Race" and ran a pullout poster of Benzino holding up Eminem's severed head. Eminem took the bait and responded with The Sauce, rhyming, "No more Source for street cred/Them days is dead/Ray's got AKs to Dave Mays' head...