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...political destruction. Buoyed by their odd conception of victory, they are launching Operation Perpetual Impeachment, targeting outspoken presidential critics for political extinction in 2000. For Republicans the temptation to do battle with them--for retribution, validation, vindication--will be enormous. But the G.O.P. needs to resist taking this bait and return to fighting over big issues, not small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How I'd Whip the Democrats | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...Dartboard will dangle some bait...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: DARTBOARD | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

...prom all over again. There was only one salvagable memory from that night, though, and now you're too old for it. (If you've gotta ask, you'll never know.) Yes indeedee, the Freshman Formal's dropped bait. And no one's biting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Foible? | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

...personal change. Trajectories of personal growth do not often coincide. Moreover, many are unwilling to settle down and work through the inevitable tribulations of a relationship. We're young, they think, and why should we tolerate anything less than total contentment? Things aren't going well? Then cut bait. Besides, isn't now the time to sow some wild oats...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: Endpaper: The Slot-Machine of Love | 2/11/1999 | See Source »

...recruiting as a post-graduate option seems to be the result of a number of concrete factors, including the ease with which one can get a banking or consulting job, the large amount of money one can earn in these fields, the Herculean efforts of the recruiting companies to bait intelligent 22-year-olds (coupled with OCS' compliance with them) and, most importantly, confusion on the part of those who apply...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: Beyond Good and Evil at OCS | 12/8/1998 | See Source »

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