Word: entraps
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...rival Enquirer are shocked, shocked. "Without the Globe basically pimping this woman," says Steve Coz, editor of the Enquirer, "Frank Gifford would not have been in that hotel room. This is the most heinous act that I've ever seen in journalism. When you set out to entrap Frank Gifford, you are basically setting out to destroy his marriage." Without engaging in a debate about the Globe's ethics or Gifford's morals, one has to feel a certain sympathy for him. He is having a rather rough spring, with both the Globe's sting operation and the news that...
...green like Halloween pumpkins. They obliged. But when she asked them to help her arm the grenades, they refused, as Mahon says he later did too. "I knew she was bent," he says. "She was the one always talking about killing and bombing," in an attempt, he contends, to entrap others at the compound...
...campaign stop in Athens, Georgia, recently, a woman in the audience tried to entrap Democratic Senate candidate Max Cleland with a liberal-baiting question: Could he explain to Georgia voters his traveling to Massachusetts to campaign for Edward Kennedy? Cleland, a Vietnam War triple amputee, responded that he knew Kennedy through the Senator's son, a fellow amputee, and that he went to praise Kennedy's work on behalf of veterans. By the time he had finished talking, Cleland had transformed a partisan attack into an eloquent speech that hewed closely to the values of his small-town Southern audience...
According to one of Jones' more insubstantial theories, the Oklahoma bombing may have been a government sting operation that got wildly out of hand. Strassmeir, he hypothesizes, may have been an FBI informant who attempted to entrap McVeigh in a phony bombing scheme, only to see his intended victim carry the plan to its conclusion. Two weeks before the bombing, McVeigh placed a call to Elohim City, and Jones believes that McVeigh was trying to reach Strassmeir. McVeigh isn't saying whom he was calling. Strassmeir says in any case no one told him about the call or summoned...
Some might say these facts mesh well with perceptions shared by many Harvard students that the BCC attempts to entrap the vulnerable within its fold...