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...interpret this new plan as license to take any woman they see, and Murron catches the eye of one licentious soldier, She lashes out drwingte wrath of tother English soldiers, and William helps her to escape. Incensed by this attack on "peaceful" troops, the English captain uses Murron as bait in a trap to caputre William. When William returns the villagers rise up with him against the soldiers. A hero is born, and Scotland is thrown into a long awaited war with the hated English...

Author: By Cicely V. Wedgeworth, | Title: Gibson's Kilts Come up Short | 5/26/1995 | See Source »

...over the resistance of the sheep people, or "sheeple." The Militia of Montana offers a similar vision: those who will rescue the Constitution are an underground army of men who have semiautomatics cached in barrels in the woods and who know you can catch catfish with Ivory soap as bait, men whom society now views as "outcast," "strange" or "erratic primitives" (in highlighted descriptions from clippings in Trochmann's mailings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OUTCASTS DIGGING IN FOR THE APOCALYPSE | 5/1/1995 | See Source »

Acquiring football, moreover, helped Murdoch achieve his investment in New World, whose cbs affiliates were smarting from the N.F.L. loss. For those stations in particular, says one former Fox executive, "football was the bait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WILL MURDOCH BE OUTFOXED? | 4/17/1995 | See Source »

...contradiction. Rather, it confirms the significance of the principles at the heart of this case. These principles cannot be ignored out of compassion for Gina Grant. Nor should Harvard retreat from asserting them simply because some people want to willfully misread the issue so that they can bait Harvard for being elitist...

Author: By Lee A. Daniels, | Title: Harvard is Right About Grant | 4/11/1995 | See Source »

...World Order argues that the last two centuries have witnessed an anti-Christian conspiracy involving, among others, European Jewish Bankers, Bavarian Freemasons, and Bolsheviks. The book draws heavily on explicitly anti-Semitic tracts from the early twentieth century. In what New York Times columnist Frank Rich has called a 'bait and switch,' Robertson quotes almost verbatim from these works, leaving out of his own work the glaringly obvious anti-Semitic remarks that permeate such rightly forgotten books as Nesta Webster's 1922 World Revolution: Plot Against Civilization...

Author: By Samuel J. Rascoffs, | Title: People of the Books | 4/7/1995 | See Source »

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