Word: fodder
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...album’s other great songs, covers of Etta James’ “I’ll Dry My Tears,” and LaVern Baker’s “Bumblebee.” Soul covers aren’t usually normal fodder for indie garage bands, but the Casual Dots tackle these with grace and panache, especially on the latter, where the spare bass-less instrumentation really captures the song’s vintage sound...
...candidate has the misfortune of actually encouraging a pre-established, unfavorable narrative, it’s all over. This happened to Michael Dukakis, whose calm answer to a hypothetical death-penalty question about his wife being raped became fodder for the running story that he was dull and dispassionate. (If you’ve seen him speak at Harvard, as he often does, you probably were surprised at how different he seems from the Jon Lovitz caricature which helped to sink him.) On the opposite end of the spectrum, Howard Dean’s perhaps-fatal mistake...
...Jordan, Yemen and Syria, whipped up by enthusiastic imams back home. Once across the border, they head to mosques to link up with local resistance cells. U.S. officials believe that most of them then carry out missions under the orders of Saddam loyalists. "They use the fundamentalists as cannon fodder," especially for lethal attacks on soft targets involving car bombs, say the officials. "Suicide bombers are generally not Iraqis or former regime types...
...ideal subject for a 30-second campaign spot. But the event was too contrived, Bush's swagger too macho and his message way too premature. As U.S. soldiers continued to die in Iraq over the summer and fall, the President's perfect photo-op turned into perfect fodder for his opponents. When footage of Bush on the carrier did turn up in a TV ad, it was used by a Democrat to attack the President's handling of Iraq...
...units that are intimately familiar with their areas and can plan and attack below the radar of local security forces. The pattern, says Rand Corporation terrorism expert Bruce Hoffman, "is to send a handful of professional terrorists to make contact with existing local terrorist groups, who provide the cannon fodder--that is, the suicide bombers...