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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wimp factor is resurfacing. "Major's a Weak Coward," blared the headline of the Mirror, one of the tabloids to which Clare Latimer, the woman he was rumored to be involved with back in 1993, vented her anger at the unmanly way Major had used her as a legal "decoy." Now that must really rankle

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finally, a Major Scandal | 10/6/2002 | See Source »

...Recently, however, they may have found themselves directed, instead, to the pornographic pages of "Lola: I Do Things Your Wife Won't." Mystery hackers appear to have used a variety of means over the past month to sabotage al-Qaeda's presence on the Internet, including the installation of decoy pages, and the hogging of similar domain names in an effort to hobble efforts by supporters of the terror network to reestablish their site. Even in cyberspace, it seems, Osama Bin Laden's group is on the defensive. "Do not be deceived by the blasphemous behavior of the crusaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bin Laden Hacked! | 7/31/2002 | See Source »

This was suspicious enough to persuade the cops to dig further into Ridgway's background. They found the records of his 1982 arrest for soliciting a police decoy and the 1983 incident near the school ballpark. From his two ex-wives and an ex-girlfriend, they learned about his appetite for outdoor sex--and found he had arranged trysts, camped out or picked blackberries at as many as seven of the body dump sites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: River Of Death | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

Whoever said that good things come in small packages knew outfielder Lauren “Jersey” Stefanchik. Standing at 5’3, her small physical appearance serves as a natural decoy to her big playmaking potential...

Author: By Nicole J. Meunier, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: FROSH BRING FRESH ENERGY | 4/5/2002 | See Source »

...called the war a “decoy that utilizes tremendous fear to get away with all kinds of things that would otherwise be unacceptable during a different time...

Author: By Arielle J. Cohen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Historian Zinn Speaks Out Against War on Terrorism | 3/14/2002 | See Source »

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